Abstract

DIAS, Vanda Amaro. European Neighborhood Policy: imperial practices at the «other» border?. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2014, n.43, pp.75-84. ISSN 1645-9199.

Post-Cold War security challenges led the European Union to develop a foreign policy dimension, which aims at assuring its security and stability. In order to attain that goal the EU exports the neoliberal model that regulates its internal organization. This reflects the belief that economically interdependent democracies do not fight amongst each other. This modus operandi has been criticized for reproducing imperialist practices that preserve a status quo favorable to the EU and for perpetuating asymmetrical relations. Depending on a binary logic that opposes insiders and outsiders, these practices project the EU as a power, whose survival depends on civilizing its periphery

Keywords : Imperialism; European Neighborhood Policy; European Union; post Cold War.

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