CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Slavina, Olha |
|---|---|
| Title | Why Stabilization Outweighed Democratization: The Case of the EU Policy Change in the Eastern Neighborhood |
| Summary | The aim of this study is to explain why the narrative of the EU policy changed in the EaP policy field; more specifically - what role has been played in the change of the narrative by the intra-EU dynamics and by the strategy of / on Russia. The study uses a process-tracing method, to follow the EU’s drift from normative to security narrative in its policy goals regarding the Eastern Neighborhood countries. The analysis demonstrates that the EU is inclined to provide stability, but unable to contribute to substantial reforms on the ground due to the divergent interests and existing vulnerabilities of the individual member states regarding Russia factor activated after the Ukrainian crisis in 2014. Thus, this study tries to contribute to the understanding of a formulation of the EU common foreign and security policy in the Eastern European region. |
| Supervisor | Bruszt, Laszlo |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/slavina_olha.pdf |
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