Europe as a borderland
Gerard Delanty
Introduction Chapter 8 looked at the internal transformation of European political community with a view to establishing limits and possibilities for cosmopolitanism. My concern in this chapter is look beyond dynamics change consider implications enlargement EU, especially since fifth 2004, The chiefly concerned changing relation centres peripheries wider geopolitical shape Europe. This will be explored largely around question kinds borders that are being created periphery as result Europeanization. argument there now changed between core, emerging from marginalization become site cosmopolitan re-bordering. However, true significance core more inter-civilizational than matter transnationalization nation-state. Europe not simply product Western civilization, but an constellation which many civilizational heritages interact. suggests post-Western conception field interacting cultures, rather unity or integrated entity can understood along lines nation-state formation by reference primary origin. In terms critical cosmopolitanism developed book, most important aspect here interactive dimension opposed logic integration.
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