Borderlands : : Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East / / Raffaella A. Del Sarto.

• Superior document: Oxford scholarship online
• VerfasserIn: Del Sarto, Raffaella A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (170 pages)
• Notes: This edition also issued in print: 2021.; "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Home page.

This study proposes a profound rethink of the complex relationship between Europe-defined here as the European Union and its members-and the states of the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe's 'southern neighbours'. These relations are examined through a borderlands prism that conceives of this interaction as of one between an empire of sorts, which seeks to export its order beyond the border, and the empire's southern borderlands. Focusing on trade relations on the one hand, and the cooperation on migration, borders, and security on the other, the book revisits the historical origins and modalities of Europe's selective rule transfer to MENA states, the interests underwriting these policies, and the complex dynamics marking the interaction between the two sides over a twenty-year period (1995-2015).

Table of Contents

Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Focus and Time Span -- Organization of the Book -- 2. Conceptualizing Relations Between Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East -- Borders and Borderlands -- Europe's Borders -- The European Empire and Its Borderlands -- Europe and Its Southern Borderlands: Rules, Practices, and the Logic of Empire -- Interests, Power, and Interdependence -- 3. From European Colonial Enterprise to 'Normative Empire Europe' -- The Colonial Past: Europe and its Southern Borderlands -- Imperial Beginnings: European Integration and the Borderlands -- The 'Europeanization' of (Post)colonial Policies -- The Crystallization of European Imperial Ambitions -- 4. Exporting the European Order Beyond the Border -- The General Picture: a Differentiated Hub-and-Spoke Set of Relations -- Trade Regimes and the EU Internal Market -- Migration, Security, and Border Controls -- 5. Restructuring the Socio-Economic and Political Order in the Mediterranean Middle East -- Trade, Internal Market, and Economic Relations -- Migration, Security, and Border Controls -- 6. Contestation, Leverage, and Interdependence -- Circumventing and Resisting European Rules and Preferences -- Power Dynamics and Leverage -- Dependence and Interdependence Reconsidered -- 7. Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- Index.