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The European Union and its Periphery: Inclusion and Exclusion

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The Politics of Europe

Abstract

Conventional economic theory suggests that a cluster of strong states such as those that make up the European Union should create powerful equilibrating forces which will help even out the level of economic development. But the pattern of actual development in the European Union, both internally and in the states along its borders, appears to be marked by inequalities between rich and poor states and rich and poor regions. This chapter discusses the evidence for developmental convergence within the European Union and between it and its immediate geographical periphery. It then argues that the ideology of ‘Europeanness’ which underpins the ‘European’ project serves in part to justify the European Union as a relatively exclusive ‘rich man’s club’, keeping its distance from its poorer neighbours. New boundaries are being developed along the borders of the European Union which emphasize protecting this rich man’s club by the control of ‘soft security’ issues concerned with limiting access to the European Union for migrant labour, drugs and crime and what is loosely seen as the threat of fundamentalists and terrorism.

This is a revised and updated version of an earlier publication which appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, 29 August 199

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    Werner Bonefeld (Lecturer in Politics) (Lecturer in Politics)

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Haynes, M. (2001). The European Union and its Periphery: Inclusion and Exclusion. In: Bonefeld, W. (eds) The Politics of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333981290_6

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