Civilian power or soft imperialism? The EU as a global actor and the role of interregionalism

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 535-552

  Hettne, Björn ^a   Söderbaum, Fredrik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b United Nations University Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU CRIS)   (Belgium)

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EID: 34248039438     PISSN: 13846299     EISSN: 18758223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54648/eerr2005036     Document Type: Review

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6. Quoted in M.J. Heffernan, The Meaning of Europe. Geography and Geopolitics (Arnold, London, 1998), p. 242.
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8. Quoted in A. Linklater, 'A European Civilising Process' in C. Hill and M. Smith (eds), International Relations and the European Union (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005), p. 375.
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17. The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) covers Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine and the Palestinian Authority. With regard to the Mediterranean, the ENP builds on the Barcelona process and the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership from 1995, see European Union's Neighbourhood Policy, , 12 August 2005.
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