European Union and Peacebuilding

Cathal McCall is Senior Lecturer in European Studies, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

• Introduction 1. Territory, Borders, Symbols, Emotions and Conflict 2. European Union Cross-Border Cooperation and its Limits 3. Borderscape Conflict Amelioration in Theory and in Practice 4. The Irish Borderscape as a 'Site for Learning' 5. Stopped at the Gates? Conflict Amelioration Beyond the EU Pale Conclusion

The European Union and Conflict Transformati is a most welcome addition to the scholarly study of Europeanization for it is not only the best book available on the impact of the European Union on culture, politics and identity in the borderlands of Northern Ireland, but it may be the best book today on the politics of culture in European borderlands. McCall's compelling analysis of the politics of border life goes beyond Ireland to illustrate many of the problems and joys of national and regional integration that affect so many people across the continent. Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA