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How New Enlarged Borders will Reshape the European Union

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  • Jan Zielonka

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Debate about the final destination of European integration is again in vogue and it is largely state‐centric. The future EU is usually seen as a new type of Westphalian (federal) state with a central government in charge of a given territory with clear‐cut borders. An overlap between its functional and geographic borders is also envisaged with few complicating opt‐outs, and no variable geometry. However, this article shows that achieving an overlap between the functional and geographic borders of the EU is very unlikely given the huge degree of divergence that will result from the forthcoming enlargement. The article also questions the EU's ability to acquire one of the most fundamental attributes of a Westphalian type of state: a fixed and relatively hard external border. It offers evidence suggesting that an enlarged EU would more closely resemble a neo‐medieval empire rather than a neo‐Westphalian state with serious practical and conceptual implications.

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  • Jan Zielonka, 2001. "How New Enlarged Borders will Reshape the European Union," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(3), pages 507-536, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:39:y:2001:i:3:p:507-536
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-5965.00301
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    1. Ines Wagner, 2015. "The Political Economy of Borders in a 'Borderless' European Labour Market," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(6), pages 1370-1385, November.
    2. Nathalie Tocci, 2004. "Conflict Resolution in the European Neighbourhood: The Role of the EU as a Framework and as an Actor," EUI-RSCAS Working Papers 29, European University Institute (EUI), Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies (RSCAS).
    3. Ian Taylor, 2016. "Bait and Switch: The European Union’s Incoherency towards Africa," Insight on Africa, , vol. 8(2), pages 96-111, July.
    4. Catherine Phuong, 2003. "Controlling Asylum Migration to the Enlarged EU," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2003-59, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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