How New Enlarged Borders will Reshape the European Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7877808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Zielonka (0000-0002-5770-598X, European University Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 507-536 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-5965.00301 |
| OpenAlex | W2088369118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
Debate about the final destination of European integration is again in vogue and it is largely state‐centric. The future EU is usually seen as a new type of Westphalian (federal) state with a central government in charge of a given territory with clear‐cut borders. An overlap between its functional and geographic borders is also envisaged with few complicating opt‐outs, and no variable geometry. However, this article shows that achieving an overlap between the functional and geographic borders of the EU is very unlikely given the huge degree of divergence that will result from the forthcoming enlargement. The article also questions the EU's ability to acquire one of the most fundamental attributes of a Westphalian type of state: a fixed and relatively hard external border. It offers evidence suggesting that an enlarged EU would more closely resemble a neo‐medieval empire rather than a neo‐Westphalian state with serious practical and conceptual implications
Business · Divergence (linguistics · Empire · European union · Geography · Government (linguistics · International trade · Political science · Politics · Resizing · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Westphalian sovereignty · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
Spain’s Migration Policies
Brussels is Speaking
Reframing enlargement
Democracy in Europe
The disoriented state
The boundaries of welfare
The borders in Southeast Europe – democratic legitimacy and security issues in an enlarging European Union
Bait and Switch
Security at the Borders
The outsiders
The European Union and Border Conflicts
Unity Amid Barbed Wire
The Hybrid Continent
Religion, civilisation, geography
State capacity and development in a post-modern age
Terrorism and neo‐medievalism
Regionalization for Turkey
The European Union as a Regional Normative Hegemon
The European Neighbourhood Policy
Re‐Making of Europe's borders through the European neighbourhood policy
Borders for a New Europe
A border regions typology in the enlarged European Union
Die Politik der Grenze
The European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union – three rationalities of interaction and the problem of non-democratic regionalism
The European Onion? How Differentiated Integration is Reshaping the EU
The Dynamics of Enlargement in International Organizations
Contextualizing ‘Baltic Unity’ in Estonian Post-Soviet Territorial Policies
Os processos de partilha da soberania na União Européia
Enlarging ‘Fortress Europe’
The future of Turkey in the European Union
What Kind of Border Regime is in the Making
Geostrategies, geopolitics and ontological security in the Eastern neighbourhood
Migrating Towards Minority Status
The Political Economy of Borders in a 'Borderless' European Labour Market
Redrawing the Map of Europe
Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy
European Integration as Organizing
Europe Moves Eastward
Europe's Border Relationships and International Migration Relations
Europe 'United in Diversity
Backdoor Nationalism
Human Blacklisting
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 39 |