Building regional stability through cross-border cooperation Changing spatial imaginaries and sovereignty concepts of EU neighbourhood policies

• Published in: The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood pp. 19 - 35
• Main Author: Liikanen, Ilkka
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2016
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Distinct International Actors; Young Man; Cbc; ENP; EU Common Foreign Policy; EU's Eastern Neighbourhood; cross-border cooperation; EU Russia Relation; TACIS Cbc; Sovereignty Concepts; Yuri Andrukhovych; European Neighbourhood Policy; EaP; Normative Soft Power; INTERREG Programme; EU's Neighbourhood; economic progress; Spatial Imagery; European Commission 2004c; Lisbon Treaty; Wider Europe; Card; EU External Relation; European community; security policies; INTERREG Iii; regional development; Discursive Europeanisation; INTERREG programmes; External Borders; Cbc Programme

This chapter studies the role of the EU as an international actor by analysing the spatial imageries and sovereignty concepts applied in EU policies of cross-border cooperation (CBC). The analysis is built on a close reading of the EU's CBC programmes, from the early INTERREG programmes to docu...