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  • Reconfiguring EU Peripheries

    Political Elites, Contestation, and Geopolitical Shifts

    Miruna Butnaru Troncotă, Ali Onur Özçelik, Radu-Alexandru Cucută (eds.)

    Book 3 in the Pro et Contra series.
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    Reconfiguring EU Peripheries explores the diverse nature of the European Union’s interactions with its peripheries. Focusing on a period of rising regional tensions marked most recently by the war in Ukraine, the volume casts new empirical and conceptual light on the diverse motivations that underpin the political elites’ attitudes towards the EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, Türkiye and Ukraine.

    The volume engages with various understandings of the EU’s interactions with its different peripheries and shows how these dynamics are closely related to the self-perceived nature of the societies in question in relation to the EU. The impact of recent crises and conflicts underscore in some cases the need for strengthening solidarity and for ‘more EU’, whereas others highlight the doubts and disappointment over the challenges these societies have faced over recent years.

    The empirically rich case studies enable both interpretations of and debates on the EU integration processes. A comparative exploration of countries at different stages in the EU accession process and the various political elites’ attitudes towards the EU outlines the essentially constructed nature of peripherality. By challenging the conventional understanding of contestation and peripherality, this volume is a worthwhile first step towards looking at the EU and the peripheries it creates from an alternative, and sometimes ignored, point of view.

    Miruna Butnaru Troncotă is an associate professor, a PhD advisor, and the director of the Centre of European Studies in the Department of International Relations and European Integration of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania.

    Ali Onur Özçelik is an associate professor in the International Relations Department at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Türkiye.

    Radu-Alexandru Cucută is a lecturer with the Department of International Relations and European Integration of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania.


    Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

    This book is a deliverable in the Jean Monnet Network “Linking to Europe at the Periphery” (LEAP) nr 612019-EPP-1-2019-TR-EPP-JMONETWORK.

    This publication has received a subsidy for scientific publishing granted by the Ministry of Education and Culture from the proceeds of Veikkaus, distributed by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies.


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      Review from 28 Oct 2024: Politiikasta.fi
      Book Review: Reconfiguring EU Peripheries: Political Elites, Contestation and Geopolitical Shifts

      Rebeca-Miriana Basut

      Summary: “Provocative in its scope, with empirically rich case studies, the volume sheds light on the complexities of EU integration from the perspective of EU`s peripheries, revealing the deep ambivalences and contestations that characterize the relationship between the EU and its peripheral regions, in troubling times for Europe generally and Eastern regions particularly. It remains a unique, ambitious and much needed contribution to the field of EU integration studies, due to the obtained results that both produce knowledge on the EU periphery dynamics and leaves space further avenues of research.”

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    How to cite this book
    Butnaru Troncotă, M et al. (eds.) 2024. Reconfiguring EU Peripheries: Political Elites, Contestation, and Geopolitical Shifts. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/pro-et-contra-3
    Butnaru Troncotă, M., Özçelik, A.O. and Cucută, R.-A., 2024. Reconfiguring EU Peripheries: Political Elites, Contestation, and Geopolitical Shifts. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/pro-et-contra-3
    Butnaru Troncotă, M, et al.. Reconfiguring EU Peripheries: Political Elites, Contestation, and Geopolitical Shifts. Helsinki University Press, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/pro-et-contra-3
    Butnaru Troncotă, M., Özçelik, A. O., & Cucută, R.-A. (2024). Reconfiguring EU Peripheries: Political Elites, Contestation, and Geopolitical Shifts. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/pro-et-contra-3
    Butnaru Troncotă, Miruna, Ali Onur Özçelik, and Radu-Alexandru Cucută. 2024. Reconfiguring EU Peripheries: Political Elites, Contestation, and Geopolitical Shifts. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/pro-et-contra-3




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    Additional Information

    Published on June 19, 2024

    Language

    English

    Pages:

    330

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    EPUB 978-952-369-105-6
    Paperback 978-952-369-103-2
    PDF 978-952-369-104-9

    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.33134/pro-et-contra-3



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