Table Of ContentPerceptions of the EU in Eastern Europe and
Sub-Saharan Africa
Europe in a Global Context
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Veit Bachmann and Martin Müller (editors )
PERCEPTIONS OF THE EU IN EASTERN EUROPE AND SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Looking in from the Outside
Nicole Falkenhayner
MAKING THE BRITISH MUSLIM
Representations of the Rushdie Affair and Figures of the War-on-Terror Decade
Anne Sophie Krossa
THEORIZING SOCIETY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
Andreas Langenohl
TOWN TWINNING, TRANSNATIONAL CONNECTIONS AND TRANS-LOCAL
CITIZENSHIP PRACTICES IN EUROPE
Roland Robertson and Anne Sophie Krossa (editors)
EUROPEAN COSMOPOLITANISM IN QUESTION
Roland Robertson (editorr )
EUROPEAN GLOCALIZATION IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
Europe in a Global Context
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Perceptions of the EU
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Looking in from the Outside
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Veit Bachmann
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
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Martin Müller
Swiss National Science Foundation Professor, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Contents
List of Figures v ii
Acknowledgements v iii
Notes on Contributors i x
Introduction: Global Europa? How, When and to Whom? 1
Veit Bachmann and Martin Müller
Part I EU in Crisis: External Relations and
External Perceptions
1 S tudying External Perceptions of the EU: Conceptual and
Methodological Approaches 1 7
O le Elgström and Natalia Chaban
2 C rafting Europe for Its Neighbourhood: Practical
Geopolitics in European Institutions 3 4
M erje Kuus
3 A Fading Presence? The EU and Africa in an Era of Global
Rebalancing 5 0
P atrick Holden and Thomas Warren
Part II Perceptions of the EU and Its Crisis:
Self-Perceptions and External Perceptions from
Georgia, Ukraine, Kenya and Senegal
Lexicometric Analysis: A Methodological Prelude 6 9
C hristiane Tristl, Martin Müller and Veit Bachmann
4 E uropean Self-Perceptions: The EU’s Geopolitical
Identity and Role in Official Documents and Speeches 7 7
C hristiane Tristl and Veit Bachmann
5 P opular and Elite Perceptions of the EU in Georgia 105
K etevan Bolkvadze and Rachel Naylor
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6 U nited in Disagreement: Perceptions of the
EU in Ukraine 1 24
Diana Zubko and Ievgenii Rovnyi
7 K enya-EU Relations: Perspectives and Expectations 145
A nita Kiamba and Veit Bachmann
8 D econstructing the Myth of African-European
‘Partnership’ from a Senegalese Viewpoint 1 65
N annette Abrahams and Aly Tandian
Conclusion: Looking from the Outside In ≠ Looking
from the Inside Out 187
Martin Müller and Veit Bachmann
Bibliographyy 196
Index 221
List of Figures
3.1 SADC’s major trading partners (€ millions) 6 1
P.1 Text Corpora forming the basis of analysis for
Chapters4–8 74
4.1 Results of lexicometric analysis of EU press
releases on Georgia, 2010–12 8 9
4.2 Results of lexicometric analysis of EU press releases on
Ukraine, 2010–12 9 3
4.3 Results of lexicometric analysis of EU press releases on
Kenya, 2010–12 96
4.4 Results of lexicometric analysis of EU press releases on
Senegal, 2010–12 99
4.5 Overview of EU policy frameworks to Sub-Saharan
Africa and Eastern Europe 102
5.1 Results of lexicometric analysis of The Messengerr, 2010–12 109
5.2 Results of lexicometric analysis of speeches of the
Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, 2010–12 111
6.1 Results of lexicometric analysis of T he Mirror Weekly
Ukraine , 2010–12 1 29
6.2 Which foreign policy direction should be a priority for
Ukraine ( recurrent, 2002–14, conducted by
Razumkov Centre) 137
7.1 Results of lexicometric analysis of speeches of the
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, 2010–12 1 55
7.2 Results of lexicometric analysis of T he Nation , 2010–12 156
8.1 Results of lexicometric analysis of Sud Quotidien, 2010–12 172
C.1 Salience of the EU for certain issue areas in Georgia,
Ukraine, Kenya and Senegal: internal and external
perceptions based on the lexicometric analysis, 2010–12 189
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Acknowledgements
“Unity in Diversity” is the motto of the European Union. For us, it has
served as the guiding star in the journey of compiling this book. The 8
chapters unite 15 authors from 10 different countries. As with the EU,
this diversity led to many discussions. But it has produced a breadth of
scholarship that a less diverse project could not have achieved. For us,
looking at the EU from the outside means giving a presence to voices
often less heard and less acknowledged.
We thank all authors for their input, their willingness to revise and
their discipline to submit on time. It was a pleasure to work with you,
and we hope you find the result worth the effort.
Emily Russell at Palgrave Macmillan and Anne Sophie Krossa as the
series editor have been driving forces behind this book from the begin-
ning. The German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) provided
funding for the research group EuroGaps from 2010 to 2014 under grant
number 01UE1001, under the umbrella of a larger research programme
looking at Europe from the outside. Part of the results from this project
is presented in Part II of the book.
We are especially grateful to the Department of Human Geography at
Goethe-University Frankfurt for hosting our group. Peter Lindner, Rim
Lembcke and her administrative colleagues have gone out of their way
to make this research happen. We are also highly grateful to the people
and institutions in Georgia, Ukraine, Kenya and Senegal who have coop-
erated with and hosted us. Ein herzliches Dankeschön euch allen!
Veit Bachmann and Martin Müller
Frankfurt, August 2014
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Notes on Contributors
Nannette A brahams is a PhD candidate in the Department of Human
Geography at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Nannette currently works as a research fellow in the EuroGaps research
group, in which she examines external perceptions of the EU in Senegal.
Nannette completed her MA in Political Science at the University of
Hamburg. Her research interest covers the externalization of European
border and migration regimes to West Africa, and perceptions among
the activist hip-hop milieu.
Veit Bachmann is a lecturer in the Department of Human Geography
at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Veit is a political
geographer with research interests in European studies and global
North–South relations with a focus on the international identity and
role of the EU as a global and development actor. Together with Martin
Müller, he acted as the director of the EuroGaps research group, exam-
ining external perceptions of the EU in Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan
Africa. Veit is the author of European External Action: The Making of EU
Diplomacy in Kenya (2015). He was trained at the University of Plymouth,
Texas A&M University and the Universität Trier.
Ketevan Bolkvadze is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the
University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She was a visiting research fellow in
the EuroGaps project at Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main. She has
also served as a research assistant at the Centre for European Politics at
ETH Zürich, and worked for Transparency International and the National
Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) in Georgia’s capital,
Tbilisi. Her research interests revolve around European Union external
governance, democracy promotion and hybrid regime politics.
Natalia Chaban is Associate Professor, Jean Monnet Chair and Deputy
Director of the National Centre for Research on Europe at the University
of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has significant experience in analysing
EU identity outside the EU, widely publishing and advancing methodo-
logical expertise in this regard. Since 2002, she has co-led a comparative
transnational project on EU external perceptions comprising a multicul-
tural team from 21 Asia-Pacific locations, as well as a ‘mirror’ perceptions
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