Brave New World: EU, Regionalism and World Order

Abstract

The main goal of this panel is to discuss different aspects of regionalism as a world order in different geographical contexts. Inspired by Aldus Huxley’s Brave New World, with which Huxley sought to warn us against scientific utopianism in this panel our goal is to discuss the problems of the implication of ethnocentric models to different geographical, cultural and social settings. As in Brave New World people who take a special kind of medicine, which turned them into idealised versions of the sort of people they would most like to be, the European Union type regionalism have been presented as ideal model for other geographies for a long time. In Nuvunga’s and Coskun’s papers the problems of this approach will be critically discussed within the contexts of South Africa and the Middle East respectively. Moreover, the EU has presented itself as ‘norm entrepreneur’ for others offering different cooperation frameworks to contribute development and stability in other geographies regardless of geographical proximity. Within this context, in Molano-Cruz’ paper cooperation dialogue between European Union and Andean Community on drug trafficking will be analysed. And finally, Mordonu paper analyses EU economic policy, the formation of a common economic space, along with other three common spaces like freedom, security and justice, co-operation in the field of external security, towards its largest neighbour-the Russian Federation, in the advent of enlargement. With these two papers the EU’s efforts to globalise its ideals and models beyond borders will be analysed in Latin American and Russian cases.

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