CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Lapina, Ieva |
|---|---|
| Title | The Europeanization towards Russia: EU immigration policy transfer |
| Summary | The agreement between the European Community and the Russian Federation on the facilitation of the issuance of visas, which is entering into force on 1st June 2007, is the first agreement on visa facilitation issues ever negotiated by the European Community with a third country. The uniqueness of conclusion of such an agreement stipulated to analyze the Russian and the European Union cooperation in immigration policy, and in particular, the EU norms and values transferred and implemented in the mentioned agreement. The focus of the Master`s thesis is to find why Russia with its “no accession to and no association with the EU” position has changed its perspectives towards the EU and collaborates actively in the Common Space of Freedom, Security and Justice area. The Master`s thesis elaborates a more precise examination to clarify what would drive Russia to cooperate with the EU on migration, taking into account the aspects of the EU-Russia relations. Based on Lavenex`s framework, it was analyzed which form of policy adaptation and transfer is using Russia and what urges Russia to collaborate with the European Union. The findings showed that the long-term perspective for Russia is visa-free regime. Russia is interested to work towards visa-free regime in exchange for readmission agreement with the EU. Conditionality is one of the main factors to transfer European immigration policy norms and values to Russia. |
| Supervisor | Balazs, Peter |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/lapina_ieva.pdf |
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