Eastern Partnership: A New Opportunity for the Neighbours?
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 Russias added perspective. Founded on extensive empirical and conceptual research, the volume uniquely bridges the perspectives of all parties across the EUs 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.
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 EUs Partnership-Building Approach with Eastern Europe.
Eastern Partnership: A New Opportunity for the Neighbours?
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Elena Korosteleva
First published 2012
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Olga Danii is Director of the Independent Sociological and Information Service OPINIA, Chiinu, Moldova, and is completing her doctoral degree in sociology at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She has been involved as a co-ordinator, local consultant and researcher in many international projects and is the author and coauthor of over fifty publications on international relations, migration, youth and public communication in Moldova.
Alexander Gasparishvili is Professor of Sociology and Head of Public Opinion Research Department at Moscow State University. He has co-ordinated a number of international projects and is the author of four books and fifty articles.
Ronald J. Hill is Fellow Emeritus and former Professor of Comparative Government at Trinity College, Dublin. A specialist on the former Soviet Union, with particular interests in Moldova and Belarus, he has published a dozen authored or edited books and more than 80 scholarly articles, chapters and contributions to symposia. He has been Style Editor of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics since its inception and undertaken other major editorial projects.
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 and journal issues, with the focus on democratization and EU foreign policy. She is the Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project Europeanising or Securitising the Outsiders? Assessing the EUs partnership-building approach with Eastern Europe (RES-061-25-0001), which formed the basis of the present collection. The study was based on extensive empirical fieldwork conducted in the EU as well as in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Russia during 2008-10, which included (i) nationwide surveys; (ii) expert interviews; (iii) a study of school essays; and (iv) work with focus groups. For more information, see the projects websites: http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/research/research-projects/europeanising-securitising-outsiders/
Mariana Mascauteanu is Senior Researcher at the Independent Sociological and Information Service OPINIA, Chiinu, Moldova. She was a visiting Research Fellow of the University of Teesside (UK) in 2006 and at the Glasgow Caledonian University (UK) in 2007. She has over twenty publications in sociology and politics.
Tanya Radchuk is a Research Assistant to the ESRC-funded project Europeanising or Securitising the Outsiders? Assessing the EUs partnership-building approach with Eastern Europe (RES-061-25-0001), Aberystwyth University, led by Dr Elena Korosteleva.
Ekaterina Romanova is Associate Professor in the Geography Department at Moscow State University. She is the author of two books and more than twenty scholarly articles.
David Rotman is Professor at the Centre for Sociological and Political Research at the Belarusian State University, Minsk. He has coordinated over 100 international projects, and is the author of over 200 publications.
Sergey Tumanov is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Sociological Studies at Moscow State University. He has coordinated a large number of international research projects. He is Vice-President of the Russian Guild of Public Opinion Pollsters and Marketers and is the author of five books and seventy articles.
Natalia Veremeeva is a senior researcher at the Centre for Sociological and Political Research at the Belarusian State University, Minsk. She has co-ordinated a number of international projects and is the author of over fifty academic publications in sociology.
Stephen White is James Bryce Professor of Politics at the University of Glasgow, and Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bologna Center and the Institute of Applied Politics in Moscow. His recent books include Developments in Russian Politics 7 (co-edited, 2009) and a revised paperback edition of Party Politics in New Democracies (co-edited, 2009).
