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The Uncertain State(s) of Europe?

Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, luiza.bialasiewicz{at}rhul.ac.uk

Recent representations of the European project have, more often than not, characterized it as `uncertain',`weak',and even `indeterminate'. In this article, I look to the political — and geopolitical — ramifications of such understandings, in particular as regards Europe's role in the world. I remark, especially, on the geographical imaginations which underpin such critiques: highly normative assumptions regarding political territoriality and `power' in the international arena. I argue that such geographical imaginations fundamentally miss the radical transformations taking shape at and well beyond Europe's borders, thus failing to recognize the emergence of the EU as a very new sort of international actor.

Key Words: Europe • geopolitics • international intervention • power • territoriality

European Urban and Regional Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, 71-82 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0969776407081279


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