Revisiting the European Union as Empire

Hartmut Behr is Professor of International Politics at Newcastle University, UK. Ioannis A. Stivachtis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA.

Introduction European Union: An Empire in New Clothes? Hartmut Behr & Yannis A. Stivachtis 1. EU’s Eastern ‘Empire’ Georgeta Pourchot 2. ‘Empire’, ‘Governing from the Distance’, and the Mitigation of Violence: Towards a Novel Policy Framework for the EU Politics Hartmut Behr 3. The Uses and Misuses of the Imperial Paradigm in the Study of European Integration Jan Zielonka 4. European Union: Imperial Geopolitics and Enforcement Chains József Böröcz 5. European Union, Conditionality and Empire Yannis A. Stivachtis 6. Imagining ‘Europe as an Empire’: Competing/Converging Geopolitical Imaginations and EU Enlargements Aylin Güney 7. Europe’s Post-Imperial Condition Kalypso Nicolaidis & Nora Fisher Onar 8. Linguistic Imperialism of and in the European Union Robert Phillipson 9. Through a Glass, Darkly. The Symbols of European Empire Russell Foster