Geopolitical and Humanitarian Aspects of the Belarus-EU Border Conflict

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-69107-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Current Debates in European Integration

This book provides a broad geopolitical and legal analysis of the longer-term dispute between the Belarusian regime and the European Union, played out through conflict on the Polish–Belarusian border, which started in 2021.

Although Poland finds itself at the center of this conflict, the book covers all countries whose territorial integrity has been affected, revealing a Belarusian regime taking advantage of the refugee crisis as a tool of hybrid warfare for destabilizing the political situation. As such, it also examines the role of Russia and its influence by means of its Belarusian neighbor, exposing the underlying motivations and mechanisms used by the Lukashenko regime towards the European community.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, EU politics, migration politics/studies, global governance, human rights, crisis management and, more broadly, to international relations, security studies, and international law.

Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ku¿elewska, El¿bieta

Kuzelewska, Elzbieta

Kasi¿ska-Metryka, Agnieszka

Kasinska-Metryka, Agnieszka

Pa¿ka-Suchojad, Karolina

Palka-Suchojad, Karolina

Piekutowska, Agnieszka

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Weaponized Migrations as a Tool of Hybrid Warfare  1. Blowing in the wind but still strong: Authoritarian regime in Belarus  2. The genesis, course and scale of the conflict on the border of Belarus with EU Member States in a comparative approach  3. Between long-term geopolitical hybrid conflict and ad hoc instrumentalization of migratory pressure: The nature and specifics of the Polish-Belarusian border crisis  4. Crisis management at the EU's external borders in the face of migratory pressures  5. Unravelling the spectacle of militarised border management: The use of Polish Territorial Defence Forces (TDF) in the Polish-Belarussian border crisis  Part 2: Between Legal Procedures and Humanitarian Dimension  6. Detention of foreigners in the procedure of applying for international protection in Europe  7. Criminalization of humanitarian aid delivery  8. The image of the conflict on the Polish-Belarusian border in Polish Internet portals  Part 3: Coercive Engineered Migration from International and Domestic Perspective  9. Has Belarus Violated International Law?  10.  The Position and Response of the EU and its Agency (Frontex) to the migrant crisis on the Belarusian Border  11.  Lithuania's legal response to migration crisis: Theory and practice in the context of national security and human rights  12.  Latvia's response to the migration crisis on the Belarusian border: A legal perspective  13.  Poland's response to the migration crisis on the Belarusian border: A legal perspective

Über Autor(innen)

Elzbieta Kuzelewska is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok, Poland, and Vice-Dean for Science (2019–2024).

Agnieszka Kasinska-Metryka is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute of International Relations and Public Policy, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland.

Karolina Palka-Suchojad is Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Public Policies, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland.

Agnieszka Piekutowska is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Finance, University of Bialystok, Poland, and Vice-Dean for Institutional Cooperation and Internationalization (2019–2024).