EFSPS - Eastern Neighbourhood

People

The listed members of the EFSPS program have a deep understanding in the area of Eastern Neighbourhood

Projects

The following projects by EFSPS members are in the context of Eastern Neighbourhood

"Dimensionalism" and the ENP by Alena Vysotskaya G. Vieira

In light of the Eastern enlargement of the European Union, concerns over how this organisation will deal with increasing diversity of interests towards regions in its near abroad have gained ... read more

Connecting the EU with Its Neighbours: Towards a New European Foreign Policy? by Michele Comelli

Aim of the project The project has the following goals: to carry out an in-depth analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) aimed at identifying both its potential for development ... read more

Europe’s Unrecognised Neighbours: EU policies towards the “frozen conflicts” by Nicu Popescu

The project studuied EU policies towards the secessionist entities in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria. Despite the fact that these entities do not exist on the map, they seriously ... read more

Exporting Security Beyond the EU: Under What Conditions do Security Sector Reform Policies Succeed? by Ursula Schroeder

The project examines recent EU Security Sector Reform (SSR) activities. Faced with a rising number of transnational security challenges that adversely affect the EU’s domestic security sphere, internal security assistance ... read more

In between Russia and the EU: Ukrainian and Moldovan foreign policies by Elena Gnedina

The project studies the empirical puzzle of Ukrainian and Moldovan ‘multi-vector’ policies or the phenomenon of their simultaneous orientation towards the EU and Russia. It parts away from the traditional ... read more

The European Neighbourhood Policy towards Eastern Europe – The Perspective of the Neighbours by Andras Racz

The European Neighbourhood Policy towards Eastern Europe – The Perspective of the Neighbours Aim of the project The aim of the research project is two-fold. First, the applicant intends to conduct an ... read more

The impact of EU CFSP/ESDP on national foreign policy: The Europeanization of the foreign policy of Romania by George Dura

The project will contribute to the scientific debate about how the EU CFSP/ESDP impacts on national foreign policy, by analysing the Europeanization of Romania’s foreign policy towards Moldova. The project ... read more

The role of the new EU member states in European foreign policy towards Russia and Ukraine by Mathias Roth

The research project analyses the role of the new EU member states in the making of European foreign policy (EFP) towards Russia and Ukraine. Even before the May 2004 enlargement, several ... read more

Publications

Several publications by EFSPS members are in the area of Eastern Neighbourhood

• Frappi, Carlo (2009): “L’evoluzione della partita energetica nell’area Caspio” [The evolution of Caspian energy game], ISPI Policy Brief n.175
• Popescu, Nicu (2009): Moldova's fragile pluralism, in Democracy’s Plight in the European Neighbourhood: Struggling transitions and proliferating dynasties, edited by Michael Emerson and Richard Youngs, CEPS, Brussels, October 2009 (with Andrew Wilson)
• Dura, George (2009): The EU's political interests in the Wider Black Sea Area, Strategic Monitor nr. 1-2/2009, Institute for Political Studies of Defence and Military History, Ministry of Defence, Romania
• Dura, George / Gnedina, Elena (2009): Moldova's 'wannabe democracy' is worth rescuing, CEPS Policy Brief, No. 185, 23 April 2009.
• Dura, George (2009): Romania's problems with the neighbours: passport issue aggravates tensions with Moldova, Jane's Defence Weekly, May 2009
• Kurowska, Xymena (2009): EUJUST Themis – a EU rule of law mission in Georgia, in: Giovani Grevi and Daniel Keohane (eds) Ten years of the European Security and Defence Policy, Paris: EUISS
• Kurowska, Xymena / Benjamin Tallis (2009): EU Border Assistance Mission to Ukraine and Moldova – Beyond Border Monitoring?, in: European Foreign Affairs Review 14(1)
• Frappi, Carlo (2009): "La normalizzazione dei rapporti tra Turchia e Armenia: nuove opportunità e vecchi ostacoli", [Turkish-Armenian normalization process: new opportunities and old constraints", ISPI Policy Brief, no.126
• Dura, George (2009): On track. Moldova wants EU integration but needs to do its homework first, CEPS Commentary, 18 December 2009, A first version of this commentary was published for Gobal Europe - Monitoring the EU's foreign relations - www.globeurope.com, on 16 December 2009.
• Popescu, Nicu (2009): Re-setting the Eastern Partnership in Moldova, Policy Brief 199, Centre for European Policy Studies, November 2009, Brussels.
• Popescu, Nicu (2009): EU and the Eastern Neighbourhood: Reluctant Involvement in Conflict Resolution, in European Foreign Affairs Review 14:4, 2009.
• Dier, Aleksandra (2009): Conflict and Cooperation in Europe's Eastern Neighbourhood, CSS Analyses in Security Policy, ETH Zurich, June 2009
• Baracani, Elena (2008): The European Neighbourhood Policy and Political Conditionality: Double Standards in EU Democracy Promotion?, in T. Balzacq (ed.) The External Dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs, Basingstoke: Palgrave
• Baracani, Elena (2008): EU Democratic Rule of Law Promotion, in A. Magen and L. Morlino (eds) International Actors, Democratization and the Rule of Law: Anchoring Democracy, London: Routledge.
• Dier, Aleksandra / Buras, Piotr (2008): Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik Polens unter der Regierung Tusk, SWP-Aktuell 2008/A40, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin, Mai 2008
• Dura, George (2008): The EU’s limited response to Belarus’ pseudo ‘new foreign policy’, CEPS Policy Brief n. 151, 8 February 2008
• Dura, George / Liliana Vitu (2008): "Moldova" Country Chapter, in "Nations in Transit 2008", Freedom House, Budapest, 2008
• Dura, George (2008): Obstacles to Moldova’s NATO membership, in Foreign Policy (Romanian Edition), “Un NATO prea indepartat?” [“Is NATO out of reach?”] April – May 2008, pp. 36-37. Special edition published ahead of the NATO Summit in Bucharest on 2-4 April 2008.
• Baracani, Elena (2007): L’Unione europea: àncora per la democrazia?, SSDD Working Paper, 3-2007.
• Popescu, Nicu / George Dura (2007): Moldova, in: Nations in Transit 2007, Annual Freedom House survey, New York
• Popescu, Nicu (2007): A Power Audit of EU-Russia Relations, Policy Paper, European Council on Foreign Relations, London (with Mark Leonard)
• Dimitrovova, Bohdana (2007): Towards a Controversial Border Strategy? The Case of Transcarpathia’, University of Oradea
• Michael Emerson / Noutcheva, Gergana / Popescu, Nicu (2007): "European Neighbourhood Policy Two Years on: Time indeed for an ‘ENP Plus", CEPS Policy Brief 126, 21 March 2007, Brussels.
• Tassinari, Fabrizio (2007): "A Shadow EU Strategy for the Wider Black Sea Area", in Peter Volten and Blagovest Tashev (eds.) Establishing Security and Stability in the Wider Black Sea Area. NATO Science for Peace Security Series
• Schroeder, Ursula (2007): Between Conflict and Cooperation: International Police Reform Efforts in South Eastern Europe, in: David Law (ed.) International Organizations and their Role in Security Sector Reform, Geneva: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
• Roth, Mathias (2007): European decision-making on the EU-Ukraine Action Plan after the Orange Revolution: the role of the new member states, in: Agata Jurkowska (ed.) Ukraine and European Neighbourhood Policy (Rzeszow: University of IT and Management), pp. 45-68
• Roth, Mathias (2007): EU-Ukraine relations after the Orange Revolution: the role of the new member states, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, vol. 8, no. 4, December 2007, pp. 505 - 527
• Popescu, Nicu (2006): Abkhazia i Yuzhnaya Ossetia: nezavisimost ili vyzhivanie? [Abkhazia and South Ossetia : independence or survival?], in: Pro et Contra Vol. 10, No. 5-6 (34), 2006, Carnegie Moscow Center, pp. 40-52.
• Popescu, Nicu (2006): Outsourcing De Facto Statehood: Russia and the Secessionist Entities in Georgia and Moldova, CEPS Policy Brief 109, 20 July 2006.
• Popescu, Nicu (2006): Democracy in Secessionism: Transnistria and Abkhazia's Domestic Politics, Report for the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, CDL-JU (2006) 011, 12 September 2006, Strasbourg
• Tassinari, Fabrizio (2006): "A Synergy for Black Sea Regional Cooperation: Guidelines for an EU Initiative", CEPS Policy Brief No. 105
• Roth, Mathias (2006): The dynamics of coalition-building among old and new member states in European Neighbourhood Policy towards Ukraine, in: Antoni Podolski et al. (ed.) The Eastern Dimension of European Neighbourhood Policy (Warsaw: Center for International Relations), pp. 94-103
• Gnedina, Elena (2005): Success and Failure of the EU Policies in Ukraine and Belarus, Eurojournal.org
• Popescu, Nicu (2005): Settling Conflicts in the Neighbourhood: the EU and Moldova, Occasional Paper 60, October 2005, EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris. www.iss-eu.org
• Baracani, Elena (2004): The EU and Democracy Promotion: A Strategy of Democratization in the framework of Neighbourhood Policy, in F. Attinà and R. Rossi (eds) European Neighbourhood Policy: Political, Economic and Social Issues, Catania, 37-57
• Roth, Mathias (2004): Belarus, in: Jürgen Bellers, Wolfgang Gieler and Michael Neu (eds.) Handbuch der Außenwirtschaftspolitiken [Handbook of foreign economic policies] (Münster: LitVerlag), pp. 624-628
• Popescu, Nicu (2003): European Union's Foreign Policy Change towards Moldova , NATO Studies Centre, Strategic Issues Review 4, Bucharest, Politeia-SNSPA, September 2003