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Where the North Meets the East

Europe’s ‘Dimensionalism’ and Poland’s ‘Marginality Strategy’

European Department of the Danish Institute for International Studies, nnd10123{at}new-telecom.ru

The purpose of this paper is to analyse Poland’s Eastern Dimension (ED) proposal as seen from the marginality theoretical background. The basic argument is that the ED stands out as a discursive battlefield for different representations of Poland and of Europe’s margins. In devising its marginality strategy, Poland has learned from Finland about the ability of a state at the edge of the European Union to have an impact on the whole. However, Poland is torn between sovereign and post-sovereign discourses of space and identity; the tensions between them explain why the ED remains vague.

Key Words: de-bordering • Eastern Dimension • marginality • Northern Dimension

Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 39, No. 3, 299-315 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0010836704045206


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