Working Group EuroGaps

Dr. Veit Bachmann

Veit Bachmann is the director of the interdisciplinary working group EuroGaps (together with Martin Müller) in the Department of Human Geography at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Veit Bachmann is a political geographer with further research interests in (critical) geopolitics, development geography, international relations, European studies and global North-South relations. His conceptual work focuses on aspects of European integration, Europe’s role in the world and respective geopolitical discourses with a focus on European relations with developing countries. Empirically, he has worked extensively in East Africa on aspects of European and German development policies and local perceptions of Europe’s role in the world and towards developing countries.
After his undergraduate education in geography, international relations and economics at the Universität Trier, Germany, he obtained the degrees of MSc in geography at Texas A&M University, USA (2006) and PhD in geography from the University of Plymouth, UK (2009).

• EuroGaps: Differenzen zwischen der außenpolitischen Strategie der EU und ihrer Wahrnehmung in sub-Sahara Afrika und der Schwarzmeerregion;
  The EuroGaps project investigates external perceptions of the EU and its role in the world in sub-Saharan Africa and the Black Sea region. Focusing on the policy frameworks of European development policy and the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) we seek to identify concordances and discordances between the EU’s official foreign policy mission and external perceptions thereof in Kenya and Senegal as well as in Georgia and the Ukraine.  

• Bachmann, Veit. 2013. The EU as a geopolitical and development actor: views from East Africa. Forthcoming in L’Espace Politique
• Bachmann, Veit. 2013. Political Geography’s blindspots: Introducing Jo Sharp’s ‘Geopolitics at the Margins’. Forthcoming in Political Geography
• Bachmann, Veit. 2013. Europe’s lack of visions. Forthcoming in Geopolitics
• Moisio, Sami, Veit Bachmann, Luiza Bialasiewicz, Elena Dell’Agnese, Jason Dittmer, Virginie Mamadouh. 2013. Political geographies of European integration. Progress in Human Geography. Advance online publication on 28 January 2013  
• Bachmann, Veit. The EU’s civilian/power dilemma. Forthcoming in Comparative European Politics
• Bachmann, Veit and Luiza Bialasiewicz, James D Sidaway, Matthew Feldman, Ståle Holgersen, Andreas Malm, Robina Mohammad, Arun Saldanha, Kirsten Simonsen. 2012. Bloodlands: critical geographical responses to the 22 July 2011 events in Norway. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30 (2): 191-206
• Bachmann, Veit and Patrick Holden. 2012. “Leading Through Civilian Power” or Creeping Inertia? Foreign Policy Journal 22 May 2012 http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/22/leading-through-civilian-power-or-creeping-inertia/
• Bachmann, Veit and Bernd Belina. 2012. Crisis, Critique and the 6th International Conference of Critical Geography 2011. Antipode 44 (3): 555-559
• Ievgenii Rovnyi and Veit Bachmann. 2012. Reflexive Geographies of Europeanization. Geography Compass 6 (5): 260-274
• Paasche, Till and Veit Bachmann. 2012. The USS New York. ACME 11 (1): 177-183
• Bachmann, Veit and Makumi Mwagiru. 2011. Diversity and Eurocentrism – Incorporating collaboration, not paternalism, into EU aid policy. Internationale Politik Global Edition. Accessible on http://www.ip-global.org  
• Bachmann, Veit. 2011. Participating and observing: positionality and fieldwork relations during Kenya’s post-election crisis. Area 43 (3) 362-368.
• Bachmann, Veit. 2011. Macht und/oder Modell? Differenzierte Europabilder in Ostafrika. Europa Regional 17(4): 69-80.
• Bachmann, Veit and James D Sidaway. 2010. African regional integration and European involvement: external agents in the East African Community. South African Geographical Journal 92 (1): 1-6.
• Bachmann, Veit. 2010. From Jackboots to Birkenstocks: The Civilianisation of German Geopolitics in the Twentieth Century. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 101 (3): 320-332.
• Bachmann, Veit. 2010. Kenya's 'Collapse' and its post-election tragedy of the commons. Affect 2 (1): 1-22.
• Bachmann, Veit and James D Sidaway. 2009. Zivilmacht Europa: a critical geopolitics of the European Union as a global power. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34 (1): 94-109.
• Hugill, Peter and Veit Bachmann. 2005. The Route to the Techno-Industrial World-Economy and the Transfer of German Organic Chemistry to America before, during, and immediately after World War One. Comparative Technology Transfer and Society 3(2): 158-186.
• Mosio, Sami, Veit Bachmann, Luiza Bialasiewicz, Elena Dell’Agnese, Jason Dittmer, Virginie Mamadouh. under review. The geopolitics of EU power and Europeanization: towards a comparative research agenda.

• Bachmann, Veit. 2013. International Organizations. In Ashgate Companion on Critical Geopolitics, eds. Klaus Dodds, Merje Kuus, Joanne Sharp. Aldershot: Ashgate, 405-420
• Bachmann, Veit. 2013. The EAC and India - a view from the outside. In East Africa-India Security Relations, eds. Mwagiru, Makumi and Aparajita Biswas. Nairobi: IDIS/NDC
• Bachmann, Veit. 2012. The EU in Kenya and the World. Available here 
• Bachmann, Veit. 2012. Alte Großmacht-Kontroversen in den Auseinandersetzungen um die ersten Beitritte. Forthcoming in Europa – eine Geographie, eds. Hans Gebhardt, Rüdiger Glaser, Sebastian Lentz. Heidelberg: Spektrum
• Bachmann, Veit. 2012. Kontroversen um die EU als politisch-geographisches Projekt. Forthcoming in Europa – eine Geographie, eds. Hans Gebhardt, Rüdiger Glaser, Sebastian Lentz. Heidelberg: Spektrum
• Bachmann, Veit. 2011. Common Foreign and Security Policy: Unified European Geopolitics? Fair Observer. Accessible on http://fairobserver.com/article/common-foreign-and-security-policy-unified-european-geopolitics  
• Bachmann, Veit. 2011. European spaces of development: aid, regulation and regional integration. Forthcoming in Europe in the World: EU Geopolitics and the Transformation of European Space, ed. Luiza Bialasiewicz. Aldershot: Ashgate, 59-84.
• Bachmann, Veit and James D Sidaway. 2009. Encore - The Hour of Europe? AAG Newsletter 44 (6): 11.
• Bachmann, Veit. 2009. Book Review of Gather, Mathias, Andreas Kagermeier and Martin Lanzendorf. 2008. Geographische Mobilitäts- und Verkehsforschung. Berlin, Stuttgart: Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung. In Journal of Transport Geography 17 (4): 321-322.
• Bachmann, Veit. 2008. Book Review of McGrew, Anthony and Nana K. Poku. 2007. Globalization, Development and Human Security. Cambridge: Polity Press. In Progress in Development Studies 8 (4): 369-370.
• Bachmann, Veit. 2006. Book Review of Meinig, Donald W. 2004. The Shaping of America – A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History: Volume 4 Global America 1915-2000. New Haven: Yale University Press. In Historical Geography 34: 187-189.