EU Geopolitics

Borders, Crises and Security in the Post-Liberal Era
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-32027-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in European Politics

This monograph analyzes the EU's geopolitical encounters with key neighbors and global actors, examining adaptations across security, defence, diplomatic, market, trade and investment realms. It explores the EU's response to threats posed by waning Western hegemony and how it protects its liberal zone amid contestations in a post-liberal order.

Employing a geopolitical framework, the book examines the EU's geopolitical actorness and code through its historical development, integration and enlargement, analyzing EU recalibration amidst imperial and adversarial codes from aspiring and great powers. By examining EU relations with Turkey, Russia, China and the US, it explores how the EU refines its geopolitical code to address challenges from major players. The book assesses the EU's foreign policy adaptation to changing circumstances, protecting vital interests while securing its global position and providing a case study of applied geopolitics. Main battlefields explored include territory demarcation, ordering preferences, geopolitical space-making and power projection, capturing contestations to the EU liberal order. The empirical discussion evolves in three cycles: internal EU geopolitics, regional Eurasian geopolitics (Russia and Turkey), and contestations with the US and China, tracing geopolitical conundrums in the post-liberal order.

This book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and advanced students in geopolitics, strategic studies, foreign policy, international relations, EU studies and diplomacy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Proedrou, Filippos

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction.  2.Geopolitics as a framework of analysis. 3.A geopolitical reading of EU integration: A liberal zone, boundary demarcation and a liberal geopolitical code in transition. 4.EU-Russia geopolitical reckoning: Russia as a rival. 5.EU-Turkey adversarial geopolitics: Geopolitical Othering, territorial demarcation and frenemy relations. 6.The unfolding EU-US geopolitical conundrum. 7.EU-China relations: Adversarial geopolitical space-making and emerging systemic rivalry. 8.Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Filippos Proedrou is Associate Professor of Global Political Economy at the University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK.