Ruben Zaiotti
Biographic Data
| ID | 4079158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruben Zaiotti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruben |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaiotti |
| SIGNATURE | ZAIOTTI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The European Union and Digital Diplomacy
The chapter examines the main features and trends characterizing the European Union’s (EU) efforts in the digital diplomacy domain. The EU, like other national and international political entities, has recently embraced social media and other digital technologies as a way to engage with foreign audiences and raise its global profile. Because of its unique nature—a hybrid and unfinished political entity mixing intergovernmental and supranational f…
Border crossings as soft power
Museums dedicated to migration and migration-processing facilities have proliferated around the world in recent times.The purpose of this paper is to explore how these institutions, through their communicative practices on social media, are shaping contemporary narratives about border control, national identity and global politics.The paper examines two of the most notorious examples of what Walters calls the 'border control museum complex', name…
Border crossings as soft power
Transgovernmental networks and security policy coordination in North America and the European Union
International Organisations and Digital Diplomacy
Externalizing Migration Management
The extension of border controls beyond a country’s territory to regulate the flows of migrants before they arrive has become a popular and highly controversial policy practice. Today, remote control policies are more visible, complex and widespread than ever before, raising various ethical, political and legal issues for the governments promoting them. The book examines the externalization of migration control from an interdisciplinary and compa…
Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations
Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations: The Israel‒Palestine‒European Union Triangle." Mediterranean Politics, 22(3), pp. 439–440
Externalizing Migration Management
Practical continentalism
The Hybrid Continent
Despite its elusiveness and undefined boundaries, policy-makers and pundits have strived to pin down what ‘Europe’ as a territorial project actually represents and where it might (and should) be going. Two of the most intriguing arguments refer to Europe as either a ‘super-state in the making’ or a ‘neo-medieval empire.’ These models are typically presented as either mutually exclusive or in tension with one another. In this paper, I argue that t…
The Italo-French Row over Schengen, Critical Junctures, and the Future of Europe's Border Regime
The row between the French and Italian governments over the handling of migratory flows out of North Africa in the wake of the “jasmine revolutions” has raised some serious doubts about the future of Schengen, the policy regime that guarantees the free movement of people across Europe. Does this row really represent, as some commentators have suggested, the beginning of the end for one of the key pillars of European integration? In this paper I c…
Performing Schengen
Myth-making has historically been an essential component of the modern state's quest for territorial control and legitimacy. As a sui generis post-national political entity in search for identity and recognition, the European Union (EU) seems to mimicking its more established national counterpart. By formulating and reproducing a narrative that hails Europe's border control regime (‘Schengen’) as a success story of European integration and by dep…
Metaphors of globalization
Introduction: Mirrors, Magicians and Mutinies of Globalization M.Kornprobst, V.Pouliot, N.Shah & R.Zaiotti PART 1: MIRRORS Closed Fist, Empty Hand, or Open Hand? Globalization and Historical Analogies M.Kornprobst Reflexive Mirror: Everything Takes Place As If Threats Were Going Global V.Pouliot Mutiny or Mirror? Politicizing the Limits/Ethics of the Tobin J.Brassett Bridging Commonsense: Pragmatic Metaphors and the 'Schengen Laboratory' R.Zaiott…
Metaphors of Globalization
By revisiting globalization using an analysis of metaphors, such as 'global village' and 'network society', this volume sheds new light on overlooked dimensions of global politics, redresses outdated
Of Friends and Fences
The goal of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the European Union’s recently launched initiative towards its ‘near abroad’, is “to avoid new dividing lines across the continent” and to establish around Europe’s edges a ‘ring of friends’ with whom the EU can enjoy “close, peaceful and co‐operative relations”. This paper argues that, despite its stated objectives, the ENP is actually reproducing — if not reinforcing — some of the existing bar…
La propagation de la sécurité
L’objectif de la PEV est de créer une « communauté de sécurité » dans laquelle l’UE et ses voisins pourraient bénéficier de « relations proches, pacifiques et coopératives ». En dépit des objectifs affichés, le rôle de la sécurité est bien plus important dans la PEV que ce que laissent entendre ses défenseurs. Au lieu d’inciter les voisins à y participer, les mesures sécuritaires de cette politique portent atteinte à la promesse d’obtenir un meil…
Dealing with non-Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East
Despite the relevance of the issue in Middle Eastern politics, the study of non-Palestinian refugees and their treatment in the region is a subject that has received little attention in the academic community. This paper attempts to fill this gap by examining the evolution of refugee policies in the Middle East between two of the major events that have characterized the region in the last decade, the 1990-1991 and 2002-2003 ‘Gulf Crises’, and by …
Of Friends and Fences
The goal of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the European Union’s recently launched initiative towards its ‘near abroad’, is “to avoid new dividing lines across the continent” and to establish around Europe’s edges a ‘ring of friends’ with whom the EU can enjoy “close, peaceful and co‐operative relations”. This paper argues that, despite its stated objectives, the ENP is actually reproducing — if not reinforcing — some of the existing bar…
The Italo-French Row over Schengen, Critical Junctures, and the Future of Europe's Border Regime
The row between the French and Italian governments over the handling of migratory flows out of North Africa in the wake of the “jasmine revolutions” has raised some serious doubts about the future of Schengen, the policy regime that guarantees the free movement of people across Europe. Does this row really represent, as some commentators have suggested, the beginning of the end for one of the key pillars of European integration? In this paper I c…
Externalizing Migration Management
Performing Schengen
Myth-making has historically been an essential component of the modern state's quest for territorial control and legitimacy. As a sui generis post-national political entity in search for identity and recognition, the European Union (EU) seems to mimicking its more established national counterpart. By formulating and reproducing a narrative that hails Europe's border control regime (‘Schengen’) as a success story of European integration and by dep…
Practical continentalism
The Hybrid Continent
Despite its elusiveness and undefined boundaries, policy-makers and pundits have strived to pin down what ‘Europe’ as a territorial project actually represents and where it might (and should) be going. Two of the most intriguing arguments refer to Europe as either a ‘super-state in the making’ or a ‘neo-medieval empire.’ These models are typically presented as either mutually exclusive or in tension with one another. In this paper, I argue that t…
La propagation de la sécurité
L’objectif de la PEV est de créer une « communauté de sécurité » dans laquelle l’UE et ses voisins pourraient bénéficier de « relations proches, pacifiques et coopératives ». En dépit des objectifs affichés, le rôle de la sécurité est bien plus important dans la PEV que ce que laissent entendre ses défenseurs. Au lieu d’inciter les voisins à y participer, les mesures sécuritaires de cette politique portent atteinte à la promesse d’obtenir un meil…
Dealing with non-Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East
Despite the relevance of the issue in Middle Eastern politics, the study of non-Palestinian refugees and their treatment in the region is a subject that has received little attention in the academic community. This paper attempts to fill this gap by examining the evolution of refugee policies in the Middle East between two of the major events that have characterized the region in the last decade, the 1990-1991 and 2002-2003 ‘Gulf Crises’, and by …
Of Friends and Fences
The goal of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the European Union’s recently launched initiative towards its ‘near abroad’, is “to avoid new dividing lines across the continent” and to establish around Europe’s edges a ‘ring of friends’ with whom the EU can enjoy “close, peaceful and co‐operative relations”. This paper argues that, despite its stated objectives, the ENP is actually reproducing — if not reinforcing — some of the existing bar…
La propagation de la sécurité
L’objectif de la PEV est de créer une « communauté de sécurité » dans laquelle l’UE et ses voisins pourraient bénéficier de « relations proches, pacifiques et coopératives ». En dépit des objectifs affichés, le rôle de la sécurité est bien plus important dans la PEV que ce que laissent entendre ses défenseurs. Au lieu d’inciter les voisins à y participer, les mesures sécuritaires de cette politique portent atteinte à la promesse d’obtenir un meil…
Metaphors of globalization
Introduction: Mirrors, Magicians and Mutinies of Globalization M.Kornprobst, V.Pouliot, N.Shah & R.Zaiotti PART 1: MIRRORS Closed Fist, Empty Hand, or Open Hand? Globalization and Historical Analogies M.Kornprobst Reflexive Mirror: Everything Takes Place As If Threats Were Going Global V.Pouliot Mutiny or Mirror? Politicizing the Limits/Ethics of the Tobin J.Brassett Bridging Commonsense: Pragmatic Metaphors and the 'Schengen Laboratory' R.Zaiott…
Metaphors of Globalization
By revisiting globalization using an analysis of metaphors, such as 'global village' and 'network society', this volume sheds new light on overlooked dimensions of global politics, redresses outdated
Performing Schengen
Myth-making has historically been an essential component of the modern state's quest for territorial control and legitimacy. As a sui generis post-national political entity in search for identity and recognition, the European Union (EU) seems to mimicking its more established national counterpart. By formulating and reproducing a narrative that hails Europe's border control regime (‘Schengen’) as a success story of European integration and by dep…
The Italo-French Row over Schengen, Critical Junctures, and the Future of Europe's Border Regime
The row between the French and Italian governments over the handling of migratory flows out of North Africa in the wake of the “jasmine revolutions” has raised some serious doubts about the future of Schengen, the policy regime that guarantees the free movement of people across Europe. Does this row really represent, as some commentators have suggested, the beginning of the end for one of the key pillars of European integration? In this paper I c…
Practical continentalism
The Hybrid Continent
Despite its elusiveness and undefined boundaries, policy-makers and pundits have strived to pin down what ‘Europe’ as a territorial project actually represents and where it might (and should) be going. Two of the most intriguing arguments refer to Europe as either a ‘super-state in the making’ or a ‘neo-medieval empire.’ These models are typically presented as either mutually exclusive or in tension with one another. In this paper, I argue that t…
Externalizing Migration Management
The extension of border controls beyond a country’s territory to regulate the flows of migrants before they arrive has become a popular and highly controversial policy practice. Today, remote control policies are more visible, complex and widespread than ever before, raising various ethical, political and legal issues for the governments promoting them. The book examines the externalization of migration control from an interdisciplinary and compa…
Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations
Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations: The Israel‒Palestine‒European Union Triangle." Mediterranean Politics, 22(3), pp. 439–440
Externalizing Migration Management
Transgovernmental networks and security policy coordination in North America and the European Union
International Organisations and Digital Diplomacy
Border crossings as soft power
Museums dedicated to migration and migration-processing facilities have proliferated around the world in recent times.The purpose of this paper is to explore how these institutions, through their communicative practices on social media, are shaping contemporary narratives about border control, national identity and global politics.The paper examines two of the most notorious examples of what Walters calls the 'border control museum complex', name…
Border crossings as soft power
The European Union and Digital Diplomacy
The chapter examines the main features and trends characterizing the European Union’s (EU) efforts in the digital diplomacy domain. The EU, like other national and international political entities, has recently embraced social media and other digital technologies as a way to engage with foreign audiences and raise its global profile. Because of its unique nature—a hybrid and unfinished political entity mixing intergovernmental and supranational f…
Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (6 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works)