CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Migel, Iryna |
|---|---|
| Title | The EU Policy toward Direct Neighbours: Conditionality Shift |
| Summary | The thesis explores the essence of the change in the conditionality mechanism used by the EU towards nonmember states both in the case of presence and absence of membership perspective or incentive. It looks at the inferences of the shift which took place while scrutinizing two regions – Central Eastern Europe and Europeanian Neighbourhood in two time frames. In order to be able to conduct an analysis of the two case-studies it is proposed to use an external incentives model while taking into account cost-benefit analysis, credibility of conditionality and exteranal constraints. On this basis the thesis fings that the conditionality shift took place, however the role of the conditionality mechanism can not be denied completely as it provoked some changes evident in the case of Ukraine. Consequently, the foundation of the ENP – “everything but institutions” – leaving countries covered by the initiative without membership incentive, really matters for the possibility to exert influence at the targeted governments and be treated as transformative power for the EU. |
| Supervisor | Balazs, Peter |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/migel_iryna.pdf |
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