Rebordering Europe in the Ukraine War: community building without capacity building
Journal: West European Politics
Year: 2022

How has the European Union (EU) developed in reaction to the Russo-Ukrainian war, its most severe military threat since the end of the Cold War? In a ‘bordering’ analysis of political development, this article studies changes in the closure and control of the EU’s boundaries with Russia and Ukraine as well as its internal boundaries between 2013 and August 2022. It finds that the EU’s response has hitherto consisted in a regulatory process of community building without concomitant capacity build