ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the enlargement of the European Union proceeds, relationships between the European Union (EU) and neighbouring regions will rapidly change. Turkey's membership within the next years is also a distinct possibility, the 'civilizational discourses' of Germany's Angela Merkel and others notwithstanding. As a result, the EU is extending the borders of its political community eastward to the former Soviet Union and southward towards Mediterranean and Middle Eastern regions. This dimensionality of EU geopolitics is reflected in the development of a European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) as well as by discourses that support the notion of a 'Wider Europe'. In order for any meaningful EU geopolitics to emerge, the internal political community must be cohesive enough to allow agreement on the basic tenets of geopolitical doctrine. The Northern Dimension is a mesoregional geopolitical strategy that draws much of its impetus from post cold war rapprochement in the Baltic Sea Region.
