B1253 - REBOUND- RETHINKING BORDERS IN AND BY THE EUROPEAN UNION

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The aim of this course is to explore the role of the European Union in the (re)definition of borders. Students are expected to get familiar with the performative function the (re)definition of borders has played for the EU’s own self-identification process and with the different forms of power the EU’s has exerted when engaging in hard and soft forms of bordering in different realms.

Contenuti

Historically, the European Union has engaged in processes that have significantly modified its internal and external borders. Starting with the integration process, through the enlargement phases and strengthened cooperation with third countries, internal and external borders have changed ensuing the EU’s own evolution or attempts at solving crises situations. Recently, the refugee crisis, the Covid-pandemic and the following economic slowdown have underlined and sometimes even ignited a process of deep rethinking of EU’s border in practical and narrative terms. Renewed attention to the 'geopolitical EU' and the war against Ukraine have furthered this process. Borders and boundaries widely intended have opened/closed, have filtered/selected, have included/marginalised at the same time, touching upon multiple issue areas, from health to economy and mobility among others. Borders can be hard (walls, fences, surveillance systems, agencies operations among others) or soft (socially constructed boundaries having to do with processes of self-identification). But what do they mean? How do they frame the EU and what do they tell us of the EU?

The Course offered aims at considering the ‘re-bordering and de-bordering’ power of the EU, looking at different dimensions: internal, external and global. Each dimension is looked at from the point of view of narratives used and practices enacted and privileged realms of examination are EU’s global role in the liberal order, the governance of migration and the impact of and reactions to globalization dynamics.

Testi/Bibliografia

BORDERS

Introduction

Course presentation. Talking of borders

Noel Parker & Nick Vaughan-Williams (2012) Critical Border Studies: Broadening and Deepening the ‘Lines in the Sand' Agenda, Geopolitics, 17, 4, 727-733.

Agnew, J. (2008). Borders on the mind: re-framing border thinking. Ethics & Global Politics, 1(4), 175–191.

Topic 1. Geopolitics and borders in the contemporary world

Tuathail, G. Ó. (1996), Critical Geopolitics, London: Routledge. Chapter 1 “Geopolitics” 16-43 and Chapter 5 “Critical approaches to geopolitics”, 112-147.

 

BORDERS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Topic 2. Fear, Anxiety and the rethinking of security

Huysmans, J. (1998), Security! What do you mean? From concept to thick signifier, European Journal of International Relations, 4, 2, 226-255.

Mitzen, J. (2006), Ontological security in World Politics; state identity and the security dilemma, European Journal of International Relations, 12, 3, 341-370.

Topic 3. Shaping borders: the EU and ontological (in)security

Della Sala, V. (2017), Homeland security: territorial myths and ontological security in the European Union, Journal of European Integration, 39:5, 545-558.

Waever, O. (1995). Identity, Integration and Security: Solving the Sovereignty Puzzle in E.U. Studies, Journal of International Affairs, 48, 389-431.

Topic 4. The external making of the EU’s (in)security

Haastrup, T., Guggan, N. and Mah L., (2021), Navigating ontological (in)security in EU-Africa relations, Global Affairs, 7,4, 541-557.

Johansson-Nogués, E. (2018), The EU’s ontological (in) security: Stabilising the ENP area … and the EU-self?, Cooperation and Conflict, 53,4, 528-544.

Akchurina, V. and Della Sala, V. (2018) Russia, Europe and the Ontological Security Dilemma: Narrating the Emerging Eurasian Space, Europe-Asia Studies, 70,10, 1638-1655.

Topic 5. The shifting borders of the European Union. Simone Paoli (University of Pisa)

Zaiotti, R. (2018), Border management: the Schengen regime in times of turmoil, in A. Ripoll Servent, F. Trauner (ed.), The Routledge handbook of justice and home affairs research, Abingdon; New York, Routledge.

Zaiotti, R. (2007), Revisiting Schengen: Europe and the emergence of a new culture of border control", in Perspectives on European politics and society, Vol.8 (1), pp. 31-54.

Paoli, S. (2015), The Schengen Agreements and their Impact on Euro-Mediterranean Relations. The Case of Italy and the Maghreb, in Journal of European Integration History, N. 1, 2015, pp. 125-145.

Topic 6. Comunità di confine: il multiculturalismo e l’Unione Europea - Bordering communities: multiculturalism and the European Union. Maria Laura Lanzillo (Department of Political and Social Science, UNIBO) (4h) – in Italian, with English translation

Cordeiro Rodrigues, L., Multiculturalism, in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ISSN 2161-0002, https://iep.utm.edu/multicul/

Braidotti, R. (2002), Gender, Identity and Multiculturalism in Europe. First Ursula Hirschmann Annual Lecture on Gender and Europe, 8 May 2001, EUI RSCAS DL, 2002, http://hdl.handle.net/1814/8069

Angeliki , M. and Arvanitis, É. (2019), Multiculturalism in the European Union: A Failure beyond Redemption?, in «The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: Annual Review », available online

Topic 7. The Borders of the North-Atlantic Community: fencing and expanding NATO. Nicolò Fasola (Department of Political and Social Science, UNIBO)

Goldgeier, J., Itzkowitz Shifrinson, J.R. (2020), Evaluating NATO enlargement: scholarly debates, policy implications, and roads not taken, International Politcs 57, 291- 321 (2020) (choose one article out of the many offered)

 

BORDERING DYNAMICS

Topic 8. Borders out

Cobarrubias, S., Cuttitta, P., Casa-Cortés, M., Lemberg-Pedersen, M., El Qadim, N., İşleyen, B. Fine, S., Giusa, C. Heller, C. (2023). Interventions on the concept of externalisation in migration and border studies. Political geography, 105(102911), pp. 1-10.

Zaiotti, R. (2016), Mapping remote control, in R. Zaiotti (ed), Externalizing Migration Management, Routledge, 3-21.

Topic 9. Technology and borders control

Grappi, G. and Lucarelli, S. (2021), ‘Bordering power Europe? The mobility-bordering nexus in and by the EU, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 30:2, 207-219.

Aradau, C. et al. (2021), ‘Data and new Technologies, the hidden face of mobility control’, Brief Migreurop 12, available online.

Students’ research and presentation of borders’ techniques

Topic 10. ‘Crises’ and effects on the EU’s borders

Ceccorulli, M., (2019) Back to Schengen: the collective securitisation of the EU free-border area, West European Politics, 42, 2, 302-322, available online

Guild, E. (2021), Schengen Borders and Multiple National States of Emergency: From Refugees to Terrorism to COVID-19, European Journal of Migration and Law, 23, 4, 385-404.

Karamanidou, L and Kasparek, B. (2020), From Exceptional Threats to Normalized Risks: Border Controls in the Schengen Area and the Governance of Secondary Movements of Migration, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 37, 3, 623-643.

Topic 11. Borders and identity in the EU, Sonia Lucarelli (Department of Political and Social Science, UNIBO)

Prutsch 2017, Research for CULT Committee – European Identity, European Parliament, Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies, Brussels. Available at: [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/585921/IPOL_STU%282017%252] 9585921_EN.pdf

Aliaksei Kazharski (2018) The End of ‘Central Europe’? The Rise of the Radical Right and the Contestation of Identities in Slovakia and the Visegrad Four, Geopolitics, 23:4, 754-780.

Additional, suggested reading:

- Andrey Makarychev (2018) Bordering and Identity-Making in Europe After the 2015 Refugee Crisis, Geopolitics,23:4, 747-753.

- Thierry Chopin, Europe and the identity challenge: who are "we”? European Issue n°466, 2018. available at: https://www.robert-schuman.eu/en/doc/questions-d-europe/qe-466-en.pdf

Topic 12. A geopolitical EU in the making?

Browning, C. S. (2018) Geostrategies, geopolitics and ontological security in the eastern neighbourhood: the European Union and the 'New Cold War', Political Geography, 62, 106-115.

Freudlsperger, C., & Schimmelfennig, F. (2022). Rebordering Europe in the Ukraine War: community building without capacity building. West European Politics, 46(5), 843–871.

Topic 13. Recent changes in Russian understanding of its self-positioning between Europe and Asia and the growing intertwining of Russian-led integration processes and migration management. Marco Puleri (Department of Political and Social Science, UNIBO) (2h)

Putin, V, V. (2012), ‘Integration of post-Soviet space an alternative to uncontrolled migration’.

Braghiroli, S. and Makarychev, A. (2018), Redefining Europe: Russia and the 2015 Refugee Crisis, Geopolitics, 23:4, 823-848.

Makarychev, A. (2018), Bordering and Identity-Making in Europe After the 2015 Refugee Crisis, Geopolitics, 23:4, 747-753.

Yatsyk, A. (2018), A Popular Geopolitics of the Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Re-actualization of Identity-driven Geopolitical Narratives in Estonia, Geopolitics, 23:4, 803-822.

Class participation to the International Conference on the future of Afghanistan (29/11)

Wrap-up sessions

Metodi didattici

Power points, In-class debates, team-work, presentations

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Participation 25% (class attendance and active participation)

Essay: presentation and discussant 35%

Essay 40%

 

 

 

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Videos, articles, seminars

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Michela Ceccorulli