Eastern Partnership: A New Opportunity for the Neighbours? - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041567607X ISBN 13: 9780415676076

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

This volume offers a collective assessment of the development and impact of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership Initiative on its eastern neighbours - Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova in particular, with Russia’s added perspective. Founded on extensive empirical and conceptual research, the volume uniquely bridges the perspectives of all parties across the EU’s eastern border, in an attempt to understand advantages and problems related to the effective implementation of the EU policies in the eastern region. The undertaken research points to the prevalence of the top-down and conditional governance approach in EU treatment of the outsiders, which is not only Eurocentric and prescriptive in nature, but also falls short of the declared partnership principles. Without the understanding of partners’ internal dilemmas and needs, which could only be achieved through the equivalence and reciprocity of partnership, the EU would struggle to make the policy effective and legitimate in the region, and to buttress its reputation as a ‘credible force for good’ on the international arena.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

About this title

About the Author:

Elena Korosteleva is Senior Lecturer in European Politics and Director of the Centre for European Studies at Aberystwyth University. She is the author and editor of a number of books, with the focus on democratisation and EU foreign policy. She is the Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project ‘Europeanising or Securitising the Outsiders? Assessing the EU’s Partnership-Building Approach with Eastern Europe’ (RES-061-25-0001).

Review:

'This is a valuable volume with some fantastic, if not particularly cheering, insight into the pervasive dysfunctionalities of EU policy towards a region that has every right to consider itself European.' - Luke March, International Affairs, Vol. 88, 2, March 2012

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 041567607X
• ISBN 13: 9780415676076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198
• Editor: Korosteleva Elena