欧盟官方话语中的“欧洲和其他地区”:通过“丛林”类比及超越使“地缘政治欧洲”合法化

IF 3.3 1区 社会学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Münevver Cebeci
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本文批判性地评估了欧盟(EU)如何构建“欧盟-欧洲”和“世界其他地区”的身份,以使“地缘政治欧洲”的形成合法化。它借鉴了后结构主义和后殖民主义的观点,在学术同盟的精神下,解构了欧盟主要官员——乌苏拉·冯·德莱恩、查尔斯·米歇尔和约瑟夫·博雷尔——在2019年至2023年期间撰写的文本。这篇文章展示了文明的二元性是如何被用来证明欧盟从规范性权力向权力政治的过渡是合理的。它对“欧盟与世界其他地区”的框架提出了问题,特别是博雷尔的“花园丛林”类比,暴露了它们的新殖民主义基础。通过互文重读,它展示了如何将欧盟描绘成一个和平文明的“花园”,而将世界其他地区描绘成一个冲突无序的“丛林”,从而强化了文明等级制度。文章认为,这些二元对立不仅使欧盟日益安全的外交政策合法化,而且再现了殖民时代的文明使命,使欧洲中心的世界观永世不变。
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‘Europe and the Rest’ in Official EU Discourse: Legitimising ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Through the ‘Jungle’ Analogy and Beyond

This article critically assesses how the European Union (EU) constructs the identities of ‘EU-Europe’ and ‘the rest of the world’ to legitimise the formation of a ‘geopolitical Europe’. It draws on poststructuralist and postcolonial perspectives within the spirit of scholarly allyship, deconstructing texts produced by key EU officials – Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel and Josep Borrell – between 2019 and 2023. The article manifests how civilisational binaries are employed to justify the EU's transition from normative power to power politics. It problematises the ‘EU versus the rest of the world’ framing and, particularly, Borrell's ‘garden–jungle’ analogy, exposing their neocolonial underpinnings. Through an intertextual second reading, it shows how depicting the EU as a peaceful and civilised ‘garden’ and the rest of the world as a conflictual and disorderly ‘jungle’ reinforces civilisational hierarchies. The article argues that these binaries not only legitimise the EU's increasingly securitised foreign policy but also reproduce colonial-era tropes of the mission civilisatrice, perpetuating a Eurocentric worldview.

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