EU Enlargement and Geopolitics: Is it Relevant Today?

Authors

  • Spasimir Domaradzki Department of European Law and Institutions, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw

Keywords:

geopolitics, enlargement, European Union, internal reforms

Abstract

After the Russian full-scale invasion in Ukraine geopolitics has entered anew the European integration vocabulary. The EU official rhetoric consistently reiterates geopolitics as a driving factor for its renewed enlargement mobilization. The swift appearance of the enlargement perspective for Ukraine and Moldova as well as the pursiut of geopolitical momentum for the approximation with the Western Balkans countries provoked diverse reactions from enthusiasm to questions about the practical consequences for the EU, its enlargement policy and the particular member states. This article raises the argument that the EU’s geopolitical rhetoric plays much more important role in the search for an exit from the EU’s internal political deadlock, than as a genuinely new geopolitical boost that will revive or speed up the enlargement process. The geopolitical argument aims to instrumentalize the enlargement policy in search of a new step towards the deepening of the European integration, making enlargement a hostage to EU’s internal problems.

Author(s): Spasimir Domaradzki

Title (English): EU Enlargement and Geopolitics: Is it Relevant Today?

Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023).

Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje

Page Range: 20-31

Page Count: 12

Citation (English): Spasimir Domaradzki, "EU Enlargement and Geopolitics: Is it Relevant Today?,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023): 20-31.

 

Author Biography

Spasimir Domaradzki, Department of European Law and Institutions, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw

Spasimir Domaradzki Ph.D. – assistant professor, Department of European Law and Institutions, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw and the Institute of Central Europe in Lublin. Visegrad Insight Fellow since 2018. Wilbur Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center in Mecosta, Michigan and Catholic University in America in 2008 and the Sofia University Center for Excellence in 2010 and research fellow at IREF 2014-2015. Member of the Ideas Lab team at the Chancellery of the President of Republic of Poland 2013-2014. Member of Team Europe Poland. His research interests concentrate on Central and Eastern Europe with particular emphasis on the questions of European integration, political transformation, human rights and in particular EU-nation states’ relations.

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2023-12-11

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Domaradzki, S. (2023). EU Enlargement and Geopolitics: Is it Relevant Today?. Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 20(1-2), 20-31. Retrieved from https://www.identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/article/view/526

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Vol. 20 No. 1-2 (2023): Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture

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