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European Interview N°92 with Michel Foucher INTERVIEW WITH MICHEL FOUCHER European interview n°92 19th July 2016 The Return of the Borders Interview with Michel Foucher, geographer and diplomat THE RETURN OF THE BORDERS IN A start of a further, almost frozen conflict in Eastern NEIGHBOURHOOD IN CRISIS … Ukraine that has paid no heed to international law and European order, has been a windfall for Poland. It has finally achieved American reassurance, 1. Many countries in Eastern Europe, with the aim of which is not so much to strengthen its Ukraine on the front line, find themselves in protection, but to guarantee the continuation of a pivot situation, caught between Russia and an offensive “eastern policy” towards Ukraine and the European Union. To what extent has the Belarus, according to the old rationale of the “cordon Neighbourhood Policy played a stabilising sanitaire”. It is still important for the European Union role in this? to draw up a “Russian policy”, based on legitimate interests (not all of them are) for both sides. At Tension on the Baltic-Black Sea isthmus is of a the same time Russia intends that Finland remain secular nature (rivalry between Sweden and Russia neutral and is placing pressure on Sweden, which – Charles XII against Peter the Great if you like, as in reality is extremely close to NATO and the USA, well as the historic play off between the German which in turn have outsourced their responsibility to city States). This tension now finds its origins in it for the security of the Baltic Sea. Poland’s “eastern two modern sources: on the one hand it has been policy” introduced in 1994 according the German rekindled by the Eastern Partnership, which was Ostpolitik model towards Europe’s neighbourhood, of Polish-Swedish inspiration, the strategic aim of converges with Sweden’s wish to contain Russia (in which was to create a glacis between Central Europe the Baltic countries and in the Baltic). Swede Carl and Russia with the dual accession by Ukraine to Bildt and Pole Aleksander Kwasniewski1 worked a NATO and the EU; on the other it is linked to the great deal on this. Long-term geopolitical continuity extremely broad interpretation of the border in is striking in this part of the continent. Russian geopolitical representations – the “thick” border – since the coveted zone of influence is so 2. You talk of a return of the borders, of which great that even the Russian State itself is challenged we are finally becoming aware. What can be by its immensity. Given the history and the power said of borders that are not really the result relations in these areas, Ukraine’s rapprochement of a State construction, but rather more with the European Union should have gone together maintained due to the interests of external with commitment by the West to a status of strategic actors, in frozen conflicts like in Transnistria neutrality. Zbigniew Brzezinski, who in “The Grand for example? Chessboard” suggested Western establishment in Ukraine would be a strong sign of Russia ceasing The Russian-Soviet time-tested practice of the to be an empire and of it becoming a Nation-State “frozen conflict”, which comprises awakening and like any other, is now suggesting a Finnish solution. supporting micro-secession on dubious grounds, is 1. An interview with the author Negotiators in Brussels neglected Ukraine’s dual a legacy of the old policy of nationalities, of “divide at the Global Forum of Baku, April 2015. neighbourhood. The annexation of Crimea and the and reign” on the peripheries of the empire. Semi- FONDATION ROBERT SCHUMAN / EUROPEAN INTERVIEW N°92 / 19TH JULY 2016 The Return of the Borders State status is granted by the protecting power to minority ethnolinguistic regions, which entails the 4. Europe is tied to NATO as far as its defence is formation of artificial boundaries, on which effective concerned, whilst being isolated as it faces Russia police and customs controls are undertaken on in terms of the race for influence. For a long time 02 improvised checkpoints. Hence the capacity this Europe’s power seemed to function according to policy has to cause damage is real, from Moldova to its soft power but national initiatives seem to be Azerbaijan. A right to scrutinize is exercised over the marking a turning point with the return of hard geopolitical orientations of the States in question: power. Have we reached a key moment from this preventing Georgia’s entry into NATO, idem for point of view? Ukraine; preventing all types of rapprochement between Moldova and Romania; maintaining control In a context of Cold War the European Union was over Armenia, which provides military bases to the never designed and built to be a geopolitical, Russians on the borders of Turkey, a NATO country strategic power, but as a community of law based and close to the Middle-Eastern theatre; influencing on values, thereby leaving it up to the big American Baku’s options, Turkey’s historic ally. Seen from ally to watch over its interests, during the Cold Moscow the regions extending from the western War, then during the ensuing period of calm and shores of the Black Sea to those of the Caspian Sea now a period of turbulence. Belonging to NATO comprise one single theatre: the Middle East is also has enabled it to exorcise the bitter memories of seen as the near abroad. several of Germany’s neighbours. It is a facilitating third party. The economy (the leading market in the 3. You quote Vaclav Havel when in 2005 he world) and the euro (the second reserve currency) called for a clear definition of the borders alone provide the European Union with world between the European Union and Russia. Which power. But Europeans have not yet understood criteria would you put forward to do this? that for the other players on the world’s economic chess board, economic and financial power is a The criteria vary according to the geographic means to geopolitical power: there would be no areas in question. With the Russian Federation it American hegemony without the dollar and the is firstly geo-strategical, which means that this processing of big data, there would be no Russian has to be taken on board when thinking about projection without the control of the pipelines, the future of Belarus and Ukraine. This dimension no rise of Chinese power without technological is established by the membership of the States pillaging and trade surpluses that offer Beijing’s bordering Russia and members of the European diplomacy the financial resources for its influence. Union of the Atlantic Alliance (Baltic countries, In the strategic and geopolitical area the European Poland, Romania). The question involves Union is deliberately a non-power. It will not suffice establishing two areas of military presence to install external border controls to reverse this and Russia is seeking its own glacis (Belarus, trend. A precise diagnosis of the world has to be Ukraine, Moldova, Southern Caucasus). In the made, where powers comprise individual States south and south-east the criterion is that of the and not regional blocks. Without the convergence effective management of migratory flows (and on of some of the “heavyweights” in the European the southern shore of the Mediterranean, their Union, we shall no longer influence the challenge co-management with the countries of origin). As being made to the geopolitical order that emerged for relations with Turkey, this might be imagined after 1945, the departure from which is being according to a principle of differentiation: forced by half of the British population on the other economic opening via customs union, selective (by just 3%) and on their allies. In the work that upkeep of visas, as long as a visa free system now lies ahead to redesign Europe, we also have exists between Turkey and the countries of the think on a world scale (therefore not just on the Maghreb, Mashreq and even Somalia, with no scale of the European Union, or of the continent participation in the decision making process in an and its peripheries) and coordinate diplomatic and ad hoc format of Associate State (or privileged strategic action so that Europeans become a centre partnership). of power in a polycentric world. By doing this Europe FONDATION ROBERT SCHUMAN / EUROPEAN INTERVIEW N°92 / 19TH JULY 2016 The Return of the Borders will become a balanced, respected power, which Foreign Affairs Minister. “In fact what we want is a would be a step forward in comparison with the clear decision on the part of the European Union”4. traditional Westphalian notion of a simple balance The criteria for the liberalisation of the visa regime5 in of power that is associated with a combination of favour of Turkey have not yet been met (cooperation 03 values (like the USA and Canada) and interests (like with Europol, definition of terrorism, data protection, everywhere, most often in an exclusive manner). fight to counter corruption). ... BUT ALSO WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION 6. The Schengen system suspends border controls. ITSELF At the same time the Dublin system focuses on State borders, thereby forcing the countries of first entry to shoulder responsibility for most of 5. The question of the refugee crisis seems to be the migratory policy. Is this not a contradiction to crystallising the link between the EU’s external a certain degree? policy and its internal security. In terms of the form and substance of negotiations what is your The system of free movement, otherwise known view of the March agreement with Turkey? as Schengen, was introduced on the request of German hauliers to reduce waiting times on the The agreement signed in March was bilateral out of a borders as their lorries travelled towards the ports German concern to contain flows that the generosity of Benelux.
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