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PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 472-489Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1191/0309132504ph498oa
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European Union and NATO enlargement; Europe; East-Central Europe; orientalism; East European studies; geopolitics
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This article examines how EU and NATO enlargement is framed by the dichotomy of Europe versus Eastern Europe, and how the enlargement process simultaneously transforms that dichotomy. I argue that the double enlargement is underpinned by a broadly orientalist discourse that assumes essential difference between Europe and Eastern Europe and frames difference from Western Europe as a distance from and a lack of Europeanness. I suggest that in order to expose and undercut this reinscription of otherness, research on East-Central Europe should engage with postcolonial theory in a more direct and sustained fashion.
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