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This project draws on my standing interest in the political implications of European integration. It belongs to a research agenda that is both historically and analytically inspiring. While studying the influence of the European Union on the security dynamics in Europe through its self-styled mission of projecting security and stability across borders, I realised not only the enormous complexity of the process, but also its major challenges and opportunities. I found that the macro-process of order and security creation embodied in the European Union as a political actor, a civilian and a normative power, and a ‘force for good’, creates a type of ecological fallacy for the concrete settings of conflicts. While the systemic objectives of European integration remain uncompromised, it is also important to explain how this regional system functions to restore peace at the unit level, when the fundamental condition of equilibrium and political stability is broken in the real-life settings of irreconcilable claims over territory and belonging. The second realisation was that regardless of the ups and downs of institutional breakthroughs and unfulfilled promises oscillating between the EU's ‘presence’ and ‘actorness’ in international politics, the European construction has one standing meaning which links the macro-system to the group by offering the unique European experience, that of reconciliation. The ability to draw on the politics of the post-Second World War reconciliation between France and Germany through European integration is a standing resource for scholars and practitioners in the field.
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