Luiza Bialasiewicz is Professor of European Governance in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the co-director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES). As a political geographer, her work focuses on EU foreign policy and border-making, as well as on the geopolitics of the European far-right. She is the editor of Europe in the World: EU Geopolitics and the Making of European Space and Spaces of Tolerance: The Changing Geographies and Philosophies of Religion in Today’s Europe (both published by Routledge).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe dangerous illusions of an EU ‘vaccine passport’Is the push for a vaccine certificate driven by an economic desire to boost travel and tourism rather than the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionVaccine geopolitics, ‘big’ and ‘small’, and Europe’s challengeWith respect to the vaccine, ‘global’ and ‘everyday’ geopolitical imaginaries are profoundly interconnected.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?National stereotypes in times of COVID-19: the ‘frugal four’ and the ‘irresponsible South’When EU leaders discuss the coronavirus Recovery Fund at the upcoming meeting of the European Council on Friday,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘Personal sovereignty’ in pandemics: or, why do today’s ‘sovereignists’ reject state sovereignty?Calls for the rejection of face masks, for example, bring together a disparate set of European political actors –...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?European politics: the ‘hidden hand’ and the ‘inevitable wave’As the European elections get under way, let us avoid conspiratorial geopolitics. Focusing on sinister figures is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ordinary ideas: demographic geopolitics and the imagined battle for Europe“ I highlight the US and Italy... not only because Tarrant drew inspiration from both, but also because both have...