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Introduction: Promoting Regional Integration and Transforming Conflicts?

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In this chapter, we introduce a framework to analyse the effects of the European Union’s promotion of regional integration on conflict transformation. We define integration as institutionalised linkages across state borders within a territorially confined space. We see conflicts as incompatibilities concerning government, resources or territory with a degree of physical violence. We argue that integration has an impact on such conflicts, which can take different forms and go in different directions. We suggest three different forms of impact: compulsion, social learning and model setting, and we argue that impact can come in direct or indirect as well as intentional or unintentional forms. The chapter also introduces the cases of our study in the Mediterranean and North African regions, sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and South America.

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Diez, T., Tocci, N., Faleg, G., Scherwitz, E. (2017). Introduction: Promoting Regional Integration and Transforming Conflicts?. In: Diez, T., Tocci, N. (eds) The EU, Promoting Regional Integration, and Conflict Resolution. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47530-1_1

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