The European Union and Border Conflicts: The Power of Integration and Association

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Tables......Page 9
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Editors’ note......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 14
Integration and peace......Page 17
The Franco-German example......Page 20
Border conflicts and European integration......Page 22
Our five case studies......Page 25
The puzzle of integration and peace......Page 29
Conflicts as the articulation of incompatibilities......Page 30
Stages of conflict......Page 32
Conflicts, borders and identities......Page 36
The EU as a perturbator of conflicts......Page 38
Four paths of EU perturbation......Page 40
Contexts of perturbation......Page 45
Conclusion......Page 46
The Irish border and the conflict......Page 49
The Irish border and the peace process......Page 53
Core actors......Page 54
Foundation for intergovernmental relationship......Page 56
Cross-border integration......Page 59
Within Northern Ireland: Strand One......Page 60
Enabling impact: crucial for peace process......Page 63
Inspiration of the EU......Page 65
Connective impact: increasingly apparent......Page 68
Constructive impact: latent potential......Page 70
The unique role of the EU......Page 72
The mediated role of the EU......Page 73
Local political debate on ‘Europe’......Page 74
Limited capacity to effect change......Page 75
From enabling to connective......Page 77
The (hazy) edge of Europe......Page 80
The conflict retold......Page 82
Analysis, catalysis: the ups and downs of theorising EU impact......Page 88
Solution and EU unbound......Page 91
Compulsory pathway......Page 92
Enabling pathway......Page 94
Connective pathway......Page 96
Constructive pathway......Page 98
Conditions on ‘use’......Page 99
Understanding Cyprus, the EU and reconciliation......Page 106
Introduction......Page 110
A strategic identity conflict transformed......Page 112
EU involvement......Page 117
Compulsory influence......Page 122
Enabling influence......Page 126
Connective influence......Page 132
Constructive influence......Page 135
Conditions of EU impact......Page 139
Conclusions and implications for EU policy......Page 141
Overview of the conflict......Page 145
The issues involved......Page 149
The emerging EU order: a contested issue......Page 163
What kind of entities?......Page 165
The Union’s approach......Page 167
Russian perceptions......Page 171
Compulsory impact......Page 174
Enabling impact......Page 176
Connective impact......Page 178
Constructive impact......Page 180
By way of conclusion......Page 182
Introduction......Page 189
History of the conflict......Page 190
EU involvement and change over time......Page 196
Pathways of EU involvement......Page 200
Compulsory......Page 201
Enabling......Page 204
Connective......Page 207
Constructive......Page 210
Comparing pathways and conditions of EU impact......Page 211
Conclusions......Page 217
Introduction......Page 219
Conditions......Page 220
Compulsory pathway......Page 223
Enabling pathway......Page 227
Connective pathway......Page 228
Constructive pathway......Page 231
Limits of EU actors’ narratives......Page 232
Conclusion......Page 235
Recalibrating the integration–peace nexus......Page 236
Border conflicts and the identity dimension......Page 238
Assessing the interplay between the four pathways of EU impact......Page 240
Addressing the conditions of positive and negative EU impact......Page 248
Conclusion: the EU between normative power and powerful mediator......Page 251
References......Page 253
Index......Page 278