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A Review of the Eastern Partnership after Ten Years: the Need to Reconsider its Efficacy
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Abstract This article analyses the effectiveness and prospects of the Eastern Partnership in the context of its ten-year implementation and the results of the Brussels Summit of 2017. The paper focuses on the current stage of the progress of the EaP partner states and the internal challenges of their develop... view more
This article analyses the effectiveness and prospects of the Eastern Partnership in the context of its ten-year implementation and the results of the Brussels Summit of 2017. The paper focuses on the current stage of the progress of the EaP partner states and the internal challenges of their development. A significant part of the article is devoted to Russia’s influence on the Europeanisation process of the Eastern European countries and the weak incentives from the EU towards these countries. The Normative Power concept was used to analyse the EU-Eastern European countries bi- and multilateral relations within the Eastern Partnership co-operation, taking into consideration that the EU norms and regulations’ implementation in Eastern Europe do not guarantee political normalisation in these countries. We conclude that after ten years of functioning, the Eastern Partnership has little capacity to influence political elite, domestic and regional processes in Eastern Europe, because depoliticised functional approach and the EU long-term incentives are not enough for the partners.... view less
Keywords
EU; transformation; Eastern Europe; neughborhood policy; Western European Union; international agreement; political reform
Classification
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
European Politics
Free Keywords
Eastern Partnership; European Union; reforms; eastern neighbors; association agreements; Eastern Partnership; EaP
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 213-239
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 18 (2018) 2
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 1.0