Title: The European's burden : global imperialism in EU expansion /
Authors: Engel-Di Mauro, Salvatore.
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 2006
Subjects: European Union Europe, Eastern.; European federation.; Postcolonialism Europe.
Abstract: "This edited volume brings together a diverse array of critical perspectives in the analysis of EU enlargement. The novelty of these studies is in their multifaceted and nuanced explanations of EU enlargement as a particular form of empire building. Each author demonstrates this process by examining the cultural, political, and economic practices, both within and beyond Europe, that constitute this form of empire."--Jacket.
Contents: The European Union as Empire / Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro -- Postcolonial Shadow Plays in the Dutch-German Borderlands / Olivier Thomas Kramsch -- EU Enlargement: Political Recognition of an Economic Process / Hannes Hofbauer -- The Geopolitics of the New Collective Imperialism of the Triad: The Middle East, the EU, and US Imperialism / Samir Amin -- The Soviet Union and Me / Andre Gunder Frank -- The Entropy of Order: The Contested Terrain of EU Enlargement / Jeff Sommers -- East European Entrants to the EU: Diffidently Yours / Jozsef Borocz -- Perspectives on the East-West Slope in the Process of EU Accession / Attila Melegh -- Between Cross-Border Cooperation and Neocolonialism: EU Enlargement and Polish-German Relations / Ulrich Best -- The Selfless Self: Constructions of the EU in Its Yearly Reports, 1998--2002 / Melinda Kovacs -- The Double Enlargement and the Remapping of the East / Merje Kuus -- A Family of Democratic European Countries: Coercion, Plunder, and Accumulation in the Development and -- Expansion of the EU / Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro.