EU Geopolitics
Borders, Crises and Security in the Post-Liberal Era
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:8th Oct '26
£171.99
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This monograph analyzes the EU’s geopolitical encounters with key neighbors and global actors, examining adaptations across security, defense, diplomatic, market, trade and investment realms. It explores the EU’s response to threats posed by waning Western hegemony and how it protects its liberal zone amid contestations in a post-liberal order.
Employing a geopolitical framework, the book examines the EU’s geopolitical actorness and code through its historical development, integration and enlargement, analyzing EU recalibration amidst imperial and adversarial codes from aspiring and great powers. By examining EU relations with Turkey, Russia, China and the United States, it explores how the EU refines its geopolitical code to address challenges from major players. The book assesses the EU’s foreign policy adaptation to changing circumstances, protecting vital interests while securing its global position and providing a case study of applied geopolitics. The main battlefields explored include territory demarcation, ordering preferences, geopolitical space-making and power projection, capturing contestations to the EU liberal order. The empirical discussion evolves in three cycles: internal EU geopolitics, regional Eurasian geopolitics (Russia and Turkey), and contestations with the United States and China, tracing geopolitical conundrums in the post-liberal order.
This book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and advanced students of geopolitics, strategic studies, foreign policy, international relations, EU studies and diplomacy.
"This book provides a much needed geopolitical analysis of European Union integration and actorness, including engaging case studies on the EU's relationships with Russia, Turkey, the United States and China. Proedrou explores numerous concepts at the heart of EU actorness, such as the geopolitics-identity nexus, systemic rivalry, and contested territory demarcation at the Union's borders. The book is essential reading to understand the ongoing recalibration of EU foreign policy identity and external power projection."
Marco Siddi, Finnish Institute of International Affairs and University of Cagliari, Italy
"More than any other event, Russia’s war against Ukraine has forced the EU to rethink its geopolitical code and bordering practices. This comes with huge challenges for the EU, not least in reconfiguring its conventional liberal-normative template with novel geopolitical approaches. This book takes debates on this topic to a new level, grasping the EU’s complex and delicate balancing in an antagonistic environment from a new perspective. It is remarkable in terms of its depth, demonstrating how geopolitics and identity are not two diverging explanatory frameworks, but intertwined. It also stands out for the ground it covers, studying the EU’s interactions with the alternative geopolitical templates of Russia, Turkey, the US and China."
Tom Casier,University of Groningen, Netherlands
"By reconceptualizing the European Union as a distinctive geopolitical actor confronting the transition to a post-liberal international order, Proedrou develops an innovative analytical framework centered on geopolitical codes, territorial contestation, and space-making processes. More importantly, through a comparative analysis of EU relations with major powers, the book bridges EU studies, geopolitics, and international relations scholarship."
Panayotis Tsakonas,National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece
ISBN: 9781041320272
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 430g
134 pages