CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Margaryan, Sona Gagik |
|---|---|
| Title | The European Union Intervention Policy in Ethnic Conflicts:The Cases of South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria and Cyprus |
| Summary | The European Union is concerned by ethnic conflicts, especially those that are on its borders and can threaten the security of the EU from outside and inside. Examining the cases of South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria and Cyprus, this research investigates to what extent the European Union is committed to ethnic conflict resolution. Hypothesizing that 1. EU direct involvement in the conflict resolution process is more successful than the mediated efforts and 2. the failure of the European Union to assist territorial entities sharpens the secessionist trends. The theories of third party intervention, credible commitment theory and the costs and benefits theory form the theoretical framework of my research. The review of the literature formed bases to understand the EU policies and tools deployed for the conflict prevention in the cases selected, on which the applied theoretical framework created strong bases to make conclusions. The concluding remarks of my research provide broad observations based on the cases studied. The results show that the EU direct involvement in the conflict resolution process is more effective: in the conflict of Transnistria EU has had a positive effect, guaranteeing maximum communication between Moldova and Transnistria, and Moldova and Russia, whereas the EU non-involvement in the conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh shows no significant step towards the settlement promoted by the EU. Rejecting the second hypothesis the argument is that EU assistance – substantial or not - does not affect on the conflicting territories’ decision to take the path of secession. |
| Supervisor | Fumagalli, Matteo |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/margaryan_sona-gagik.pdf |
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