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‘Governing from the distance’ is a typical characteristic for the government of empires and their centre-periphery relations to the peoples imperialized in geographically distant areas. As all forms of government, ‘governing from the distance’ is based upon, and is producing and re-producing, political violence. This applies to all imperial, i.e., ‘governing from the distance’-forms of governing and thus, too, to the European Union – which even though some might contest its similarity with empire, certainly does exert forms of ‘governing from the distance’ and therefore evinces forms of ‘imperial’ rule. The question thus arises, how to mitigate political violence? At the end of this chapter, therefore, a policy framework for the mitigation of violence is suggested that promotes a notion of the reversibility of politics.
Author(s): Behr H
Editor(s): Stivachtis,YA; Behr,H
Series Editor(s): Stivachtis, Yannis; Behr, Hartmut
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Revisiting the European Union as Empire
Year: 2015
Pages: 32-44
Print publication date: 02/07/2015
Online publication date: 26/06/2015
Acceptance date: 01/01/1900
Series Title: Critical European Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Place Published: Abingdon, Oxon
URL: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138818194
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781138818194
