被压迫者的回归:欧盟地缘政治转向的殖民史

IF 3.3 1区 社会学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Peo Hansen
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本文考察了欧盟当前的地缘政治转向:推动欧盟拥抱强权政治,发展“战略自治”,既面对-à-vis全球大国,也面对自己的“邻国”。这一转变意义重大,因为它标志着冷战后欧盟处理世界事务的自由主义方式的转变。通过公开拥抱“硬实力”,布鲁塞尔也切断了当前言论与欧盟作为反地缘政治和平项目的创始叙事之间的连续性。在第一部分中,我认为,尽管地缘政治的转变引入了一种不同的修辞,但这不应使分析人士误认为冷战后的欧盟缺乏地缘政治议程。在第二部分中,我将讨论欧盟当前的地缘政治转向,背景是它在20世纪50年代所奉行的殖民政策,当时非洲殖民地的大部分地区被并入欧洲经济共同体(EEC)。在这里,我认为,阻碍人们了解欧盟殖民起源的遗忘有助于解释为什么今天的地缘政治转向被视为新颖的,与上世纪50年代欧盟的地缘政治方式截然不同。从某种意义上说,当前欧盟领导人对地缘政治的开放拥抱是在追随欧盟创始人的脚步,因此,与过去的决裂实际上是与过去的重逢。在结论中,我将此与关于欧盟寻求“战略自治”的理论讨论联系起来,可以说,这构成了地缘政治转向的最具决定性的方面。
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The Return of the Repressed: The Colonial History of the EU's Geopolitical Turn

This article examines the EU's current geopolitical turn: the push to have the EU embrace power politics and develop a ‘strategic autonomy’, both vis-à-vis global powers and its own ‘neighbourhood’. This turn is significant since it marks a shift away from what is said to be the post-cold war EU's liberal approach to world affairs. By openly embracing ‘hard power’, Brussels is also severing the continuity between the present rhetoric and its founding narrative about the EU as an anti-geopolitical peace project. In the first part, I argue that whilst the geopolitical turn has introduced a different rhetoric, this should not confuse analysts into believing that the post-cold war EU was short of a geopolitical agenda. In the second part, I discuss the EU's current geopolitical turn in the context of the colonial policy it pursued in the 1950s, when large parts of colonial Africa were annexed to the European Economic Community (EEC). Here, I argue that the obliviousness that impedes the knowledge of the EU's colonial origins helps explain why the geopolitical turn today is seen as novel and poles apart from the EU's approach to geopolitics in the 1950s. What appears to be a break with the past, then, is in fact a reunion with the past, in the sense that the current EU leaders' open embrace of geopolitics follows in the footsteps of the EU founders. In the conclusion, I relate this to a theoretical discussion concerning the EU's quest for ‘strategic autonomy’, which, arguably, constitutes the most defining aspect of the geopolitical turn.

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