Introduction Europe’s Bleeding Border and the Mediterranean as a Relational Space

Today, this instrumentalization of political disorder in the Mediterranean border complex shows off in two distinctive ways. On the one hand –and parallel to Chabal and Daloz’s (1999) analysis of African politics of the mid-1990s –the chronicity of the European asylum crisis nowadays increasingly defies the classic parameters of positivist political analysis. On the other hand, the instrumentalization of disorder plays out at a different –let’s call it the “glocal” –scale as well.