Meaning of Europe within the Context of Geostrategy and a National Foreign Policies

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dc.contributor.authorOzdemir, Haluk
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T16:42:30Z
dc.date.available2025-01-21T16:42:30Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.departmentKırıkkale Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.identifier.doi10.1501/Avraras_0000000116
dc.identifier.endpage112
dc.identifier.issn1303-2518
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.startpage91
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1501/Avraras_0000000116
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12587/25090
dc.identifier.volume7
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000441409100005
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.language.isotr
dc.publisherAnkara Univ European Union Research Centre
dc.relation.ispartofAnkara Avrupa Calismalari Dergisi-Ankara Review of European Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241229
dc.subjectEurope; Europeanization; national interest; identity; foreign policy; soft geopolitics
dc.titleMeaning of Europe within the Context of Geostrategy and a National Foreign Policies
dc.typeArticle

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