1st Edition

‘The Politics’ and ‘The Political’ of the Eastern Partnership Initiative Reshaping the Agenda

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

The Special Issue consolidates new approaches to the study of the EU’s role in the eastern neighbourhood and beyond, informed by post-structuralist traditions in international relations. More specifically, by revisiting the European Neighbourhood Policy’s agenda from the conceptual perspective of ‘the political’ and redefining the notions of ‘othering’, ‘differentiation’ and ‘normalisation’, this... Read more

1. Eastern Partnership: bringing “the political” back in

Elena Korosteleva

2. Bringing “the political” back into European security: challenges to the EU’s ordering of the Eastern Partnership

Licínia Simão

3. How “the political” can make the European external action service more effective in the eastern region

Hrant Kostanyan

4. Exploring the European Union’s rationalities of governing: the case of cross-border mobility in the eastern partnership

Igor Merheim-Eyre

5. Differentiation through bargaining power in EU–Azerbaijan relations: Baku as a tough negotiator

Eske van Gils

6. Europe and the political: from axiological monism to pluralistic dialogism

Richard Sakwa

Biography

Elena Korosteleva is Professor of International Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics, at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, UK. She is Director of the Global European Centre, and LSE Dahrendorf Debating Europe Professorial Fellow.

Igor Merheim-Eyre is a Research Fellow, Global Europe Centre, University of Kent, UK.

Eske van Gils is Post-Doctoral Research Associate, GCRF RCUK COMPASS Project ‘Comprehensive Capacity-building in Eastern Europe and Central Asia’, and Research Fellow, Global Europe Centre, University of Kent, UK.