The Editor: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. He received a Ph.D. in geography from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has authored professional journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of subjects, including European Union and NATO enlargement, scientific discourse and power relations, gender relations and soil management, and soil degradation.

• Contents: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro: The European Union as Empire – Olivier Thomas Kramsch: Postcolonial Shadow Plays in the Dutch-German Borderlands – Hannes Hofbauer: EU Enlargement: Political Recognition of an Economic Process – Samir Amin: The Geopolitics of the New Collective Imperialism of the Triad: The Middle East, the EU, and US Imperialism – Andre Gunder Frank: The Soviet Union and Me – Jeff Sommers: The Entropy of Order: The Contested Terrain of EU Enlargement – József Böröcz: East European Entrants to the EU: Diffidently Yours – Attila Melegh: Perspectives on the East-West Slope in the Process of EU Accession – Ulrich Best: Between Cross-Border Cooperation and Neocolonialism: EU Enlargement and Polish-German Relations – Melinda Kovács: The Selfless Self: Constructions of the EU in Its Yearly Reports, 1998-2002 – Merje Kuus: The Double Enlargement and the Remapping of the East – Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro: «A Family of Democratic European Countries»: Coercion, Plunder, and Accumulation in the Development and Expansion of the EU.

The Editor: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. He received a Ph.D. in geography from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has authored professional journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of subjects, including European Union and NATO enlargement, scientific discourse and power relations, gender relations and soil management, and soil degradation.

• Contents: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro: The European Union as Empire – Olivier Thomas Kramsch: Postcolonial Shadow Plays in the Dutch-German Borderlands – Hannes Hofbauer: EU Enlargement: Political Recognition of an Economic Process – Samir Amin: The Geopolitics of the New Collective Imperialism of the Triad: The Middle East, the EU, and US Imperialism – Andre Gunder Frank: The Soviet Union and Me – Jeff Sommers: The Entropy of Order: The Contested Terrain of EU Enlargement – József Böröcz: East European Entrants to the EU: Diffidently Yours – Attila Melegh: Perspectives on the East-West Slope in the Process of EU Accession – Ulrich Best: Between Cross-Border Cooperation and Neocolonialism: EU Enlargement and Polish-German Relations – Melinda Kovács: The Selfless Self: Constructions of the EU in Its Yearly Reports, 1998-2002 – Merje Kuus: The Double Enlargement and the Remapping of the East – Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro: «A Family of Democratic European Countries»: Coercion, Plunder, and Accumulation in the Development and Expansion of the EU.

The Editor: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. He received a Ph.D. in geography from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He has authored professional journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of subjects, including European Union and NATO enlargement, scientific discourse and power relations, gender relations and soil management, and soil degradation.

• Contents: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro: The European Union as Empire – Olivier Thomas Kramsch: Postcolonial Shadow Plays in the Dutch-German Borderlands – Hannes Hofbauer: EU Enlargement: Political Recognition of an Economic Process – Samir Amin: The Geopolitics of the New Collective Imperialism of the Triad: The Middle East, the EU, and US Imperialism – Andre Gunder Frank: The Soviet Union and Me – Jeff Sommers: The Entropy of Order: The Contested Terrain of EU Enlargement – József Böröcz: East European Entrants to the EU: Diffidently Yours – Attila Melegh: Perspectives on the East-West Slope in the Process of EU Accession – Ulrich Best: Between Cross-Border Cooperation and Neocolonialism: EU Enlargement and Polish-German Relations – Melinda Kovács: The Selfless Self: Constructions of the EU in Its Yearly Reports, 1998-2002 – Merje Kuus: The Double Enlargement and the Remapping of the East – Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro: «A Family of Democratic European Countries»: Coercion, Plunder, and Accumulation in the Development and Expansion of the EU.