Meaning of Europe within the Context of Geostrategy and a National Foreign Policies
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2007
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Ankara Univ European Union Research Centre
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
This article, focuses on the changing nature of the meaning of Europe within the context of changing international environment. The national interests and strategic concerns of the core European countries are taken as the main variables to explain the changing meanings attributed to Europe. The first part of the article discusses the geographical meanings, while the second part delves into a debate about the cultural attributes defining Europe. In the third part, an argument is put forward about how national interests shape the concept of Europe, and later how this concept determines its borders deciding who European is and who is not. In general, this argument can be divided into two parts: the. first part is about what, and the second is about where Europe is. These two parts are intertwined with each other. According to this argument, geographical and cultural meanings are secondary to the strategic ones. Europe as a concept also functions as a. foreign policy tool to. follow what might be called soft geopolitics which allows European countries to exercise power over outsiders, both foreigners and the candidate countries.
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Europe; Europeanization; national interest; identity; foreign policy; soft geopolitics
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Ankara Avrupa Calismalari Dergisi-Ankara Review of European Studies
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7
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