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      A return to 'civilisational geopolitics' in the Mediterranean? Changing geopolitical images of the European Union and Turkey in the post-cold war era

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      Author(s)
      Bilgin, P.
      Date
      2004
      Source Title
      Geopolitics
      Print ISSN
      1465-0045
      Publisher
      Routledge
      Volume
      9
      Issue
      2
      Pages
      269 - 291
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      The prevalence of the discourse of ideological geopolitics during the Cold War meant that both Turkey and the EU belonged to the West by virtue of their ideological orientation. In the absence of this prevalent geopolitical discourse, both the EU and Turkey have spent the 1990s trying to locate themselves geographically. Drawing on the literature on critical approaches to political geography and international relations, this article seeks to answer the question of whether the EU's post-Cold War security discourse on the Mediterranean in general and on relations with Turkey in particular point to a return to the earlier discourse of civilisational geopolitics. The article also presents a reading of Turkish policy makers' attempts to resist EU's representation of Turkey in 'non-Europe' (as with the 'Middle East' or the 'Mediterranean') as boundary-producing practices which have served to underline the boundaries between the 'West' and the 'non-West'.
      Keywords
      European Union
      Geopolitics
      International relations
      Post-Cold War
      Regional security
      Eurasia
      Europe
      Turkey
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/24280
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14650040490442863
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