Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313357725)

Working from a unique viewpoint, this volume demonstrates how the European Union's fear of its neighbors reflects Europe's identity crisis--and challenges its survival.

Taking a novel approach to the current situation in Europe, foreign policy analyst Fabrizio Tassinari transforms external policy concerns about Europe's neighborhood into questions about Europe's internal future. His contention: that the situation on Europe's periphery is an unforgiving mirror of its identity crisis, institutional paralysis, ineffectual foreign policy, and morbid fear of migrants and multiculturalism.

Looking at each of the countries and regions surrounding Europe, from Russia and Turkey to the Western Balkans and North Africa, Tassinari unravels the challenges facing the EU, weighs the record of its policies, and explains how both can be traced back to Europe's inherent insecurity. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, he argues that gradual and diversified forms of integration with its many neighbors is Europe's best alternative to a progressive, but inexorable fragmentation of the EU. The ability to meet this challenge will not only test Europe's unfulfilled global aspirations, it will be crucial to its very survival.

Author: Fabrizio Tassinari
ISBN-10: 0313357722
ISBN-13: 9780313357725
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/27/2009 pg. 17
Choice 06/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 176