Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement The Fortress Empire

1. Singular Europe: An Empire once Again? 2. From Empire to the European Union via the National State: The Three Ages of the Irish Border 3. Europeanisation, Identity and Policy in the Northern Ireland Borderlands 4. Creating Border Space: An EU Approach to Ethnonational Threat and Insecurity 5. Coping with 'Fortress Europe': Views from Four Seaports on the Spanish-Moroccan Border 6. Europe and Islam: Partnership or Peripheral Dependence (Borders and Politics in North Africa and the Middle East) 7. Inside/Outside the European Union: Enlargement, Migration Policy and the Search for Europe's Identity 8. Fixing Capitalism and Europe's Peripheries: West European Imperialism 9. Carving Out a 'Ring of Friends': The Impact of the ENP on the Figure of Europe 10. New Borders in a New Europe: Eliminating and Making Borders in Central Europe 11. Citizenship Beyond the State: On the Formation of Civil Society in the Three Border Region 12. Evolution and Perspectives on Intercultural Coexistence at the Slovene-Italian Border 13. Ideologies of 'Fortress Europe' in Two Slovenian/Croatian Borderlands: Case Studies from Žumberak and Bela Krajina 14. Fortress Frontiers: Global Power, Global and Local Justice