Differentiated Containment: Compass and Horizon in Untying Ethhnicity and Interest within EU
Differentiated Containment: Compass and Horizon in Untying Ethhnicity and Interest within EU

Summary/Abstract: Should we pay special attention to the relations between countries that have historical interethnic issues? In our century it turns out that managing interethnic relations between countries in the EU is an important bottleneck that can have a powerful impact upon the integrity of the EU. Uncertainty regarding what it is to become of the contemporary European Union, yet apparent certainty about the need for reconstructing geopolitics within the EU has rekindled interest in the field of international relations and interethnic cooperation. Such renewed interest of this core concept has translated into the need for a greater historical sensitivity to forms of geopolitical social organization that can arise European political structures. It is my opinion that we are going to witness a shift in the way ethnicity is view, a shift towards the concept of “interest”. It is now something of a bien pensant cliché to remark that the EU-led policy of public diplomacy and soft power did a lot to persuade countries into the system. This study is supported by a complex statistic data base that comes to support or even put forward new interpretation to this problem.

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