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Europe's eastern expansion and the reinscription of otherness in East-Central Europe

Merje Kuus

Department of Geography, The University of British Columbia, 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1 Z2, Canada

This article examines how EU and NATO enlargement is framed by the dichotomy of Europe versus Eastern Europe, and how the enlargement process simultaneously transforms that dichotomy. I argue that the double enlargement is underpinned by a broadly orientalist discourse that assumes essential difference between Europe and Eastern Europe and frames difference from Western Europe as a distance from and a lack of Europeanness. I suggest that in order to expose and undercut this reinscription of otherness, research on East-Central Europe should engage with postcolonial theory in a more direct and sustained fashion.

Key Words: European Union and NATO enlargement • Europe • East-Central Europe • orientalism • East European studies • geopolitics

Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 28, No. 4, 472-489 (2004)
DOI: 10.1191/0309132504ph498oa
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