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084642
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Europeanisation is a legitimising process through which the European Union strives to gain meaning, actorness and presence internationally. However, this process continues to be described in less than complimentary ways as ambiguous, incomplete, unsettled, or impotent. We contend that it is the contradictory demands of negotiating order at the 'internal' and 'external' levels both operationally and normatively which critically affect the EU's ability to achieve presence and actorness in international affairs. In this paper we focus upon the role of the European Commission in the external projection of Europeanisation towards the Mediterranean with an emphasis upon the discursive construction, performance and survival of Europeanisation. We show the ways in which the external projection of Europeanisation produces fuzziness and messiness in which the Mediterranean emerges as both a chaotic conception and site of chaos.
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This Special Issue of Geopolitics on state building and contested statehood comes at an apposite time. As Bouris and Papadimitriou note in their introduction, a range of EU state building tools and frameworks in the Union’s near abroad are now evident, including the Neighbourhood Policy, development of the Common Security and Defence Policy, and conditionality-related effects of Europeanization. All have experienced some form of political contestation. Moreover, profound questions now face the six-decade old project of European political integration as it confronts a surge in populist nationalism among its (currently) twenty-eight member states. This has left the process of European statebuilding in flux, buffeted by competing supranational, national and subnational political imperatives and often divisive EUropean popular imaginaries.
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