The European Union and Border Conflicts

Thomas Diez is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany and a co-director of the Institute for World Society Studies. Stephan Stetter is Associate Professor in Political Science in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany.

• Introduction Thomas Diez, Stephan Stetter and Mathias Albert; 1. The transformative power of integration: conceptualizing border conflicts Mathias Albert, Thomas Diez and Stephan Stetter; 2. The influence of the EU towards conflict transformation on the island of Ireland Katy Hayward and Antje Wiener; 3. Catalysis, catachresis: the EU's impact on the Cyprus conflict Olga Demetriou; 4. Transforming the Greek-Turkish conflicts: the EU and 'what we make of it'! Bahar Rumelili; 5. Border issues in Europe's North Pertti Joenniemi; 6. The EU and the Israel-Palestine conflict Haim Yacobi and David Newman; 7. The EU as a 'force for good' in border conflicts cases? Michelle Pace; Conclusion Stephan Stetter, Mathias Albert and Thomas Diez.