EFSPS - European Neighbourhood Policy

People

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

Projects

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

Civil Protection in the Mediterranean region: security community-building beyond EU enlargement? by Niklas Bremberg

This research project aims to contribute to the understanding of the European Union’s (EU) role in international security. On a theoretical level it seeks to explore the problem of how ... 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

EU-South Caucasus relations: questioning geopolitics and beyond by Sargis Ghazaryan

The EU-South Caucasus nexus is increasingly becoming a strategic issue for both parts, at the same time a disruption of this perspective would lead to a certain degree of destabilisation ... 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

European Foreign Policy: Identity, Representation and Practices: Contested Meanings and Values by Bohdana Dimitrovova

The External Image of the EU: Views from North Africa In recent years, the European Union has strengthened its claims of becoming a distinctly different type of actor with the ... read more

European Union as Democratic Anchor. An Instrument of Conflict Resolution in its Periphery? by Elena Baracani

The goal of the proposed project is to examine the role played by the EU in the resolution of regional conflicts directly involving some accession candidate or potential candidate countries ... 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

Publications

Several publications by EFSPS members are in the area of European Neighbourhood Policy

• 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): 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)
• 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.
• 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
• Dier, Aleksandra (2009): Conflict and Cooperation in Europe's Eastern Neighbourhood, CSS Analyses in Security Policy, ETH Zurich, June 2009
• Adebahr, Cornelius (2008): The Debate Goes On: Widening vs. Deepening – Europe between Enlargements, ACG Occasional Paper 2008/#2
• 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
• Dimitrovova, Bohdana (2008): Re-making of Europe’s Borders through the European Neighbourhood Policy’, Journal for Borderlands Studies
• Bremberg, Niklas (2008): Från Barcelonaprocess till Medelhavsunion – och tillbaka igen? [From Barcelona process to Mediterranean Union – and back again?], Internationella Studier, 2008:2, pp.12-19
• Dura, George (2008): The EU and its Member States: Pursuing Diverse Interests in the CIS Region, CASE - Centre for Economic and Social Research (Poland), Network Studies and Analyses, No. 368, September 2008. FP6 Project ENEPO: EU Eastern Neighbourhood - Economic Potential and Future Development
• Vysotskaya G. Vieira, Alena / Licinia Simão (2008): The ENP viewed from Belarus and Georgia , CFSP Forum, Vol. 6, Iss. 6
• 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
• Baracani, Elena (2007): De la Asociación Euro-mediterránea a la politica europea de vecindad: ¿una nueva presión europea para la democratización en Marruecos?, in A. Fernández-Ardavín and M. Goded Salto (Coords.) Europa y Marruecos. Diez aňos del Proceso de Barcelona, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva Instituto Universitario de Estudios Europeos, 79-101
• 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.
• Dura, George (2007): EU membership gives Romania new opportunities in its relations with Moldova, CEPS commentary, 19 January 2007
• 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
• Liam O'Dowd / Liam O'Dowd (2007): Promoting Civil Society across the Borders of the EU Neighbourhood, EUdimensions
• Bremberg, Niklas (2007): Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Euro-Mediterranean Security Revisited, Mediterranean Politics, 12:1, pp.1-16
• Comelli, Michele / Maria Cristina Paciello (2007): A Cost/benefit analysis of the ENP for the EU's Southern Partners, (Standard briefing for the Foreign Affairs Committe) made under the framework contract with the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA), October 2007
• 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
• Wolff, Sarah (2006): Book Review: Zielonka, J. (2006). Europe as Empire: the nature of the enlarged European Union. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 293p, Graduate Journal of Social Science, vol.3, n°2. (http://www.gjss.nl)
• Dura, George (2006): Romania introduces visas for Romanians, Commentary in “Azi” Moldovan News Agency, 16 February 2006, www.azi.md (published in English and in Romanian)
• Tassinari, Fabrizio (2006): "Variable Geometries: Mapping Ideas, Institutions and Power in the Wider Europe", CEPS Working Document, No. 254, Brussels
• Tassinari, Fabrizio (2006): "A Synergy for Black Sea Regional Cooperation: Guidelines for an EU Initiative", CEPS Policy Brief No. 105
• Tassinari, Fabrizio (2006): "Il cerchio di fuoco" [Europe's Ring of Fire], in Limes : la Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica n. 1
• Tassinari, Fabrizio (2006): Wider Europe (co-ed.), DIIS books, Copenhagen
• Ghazaryan, Sargis (2006): - “EU-Caucasus nexus: ESS threat and opportunity assessment”, in “Turkey: A Gateway to Europe”, Venice, 5 May 2006, in Acque e Terre/Marco Polo Magazine, Venice, 4/2006
• 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
• Kajnč, Sabina / ŠABIČ, Zlatko (2005): Sredozemska razsežnost Evropske unije [Mediterranean Dimension of the European Union]. , FERFILA, Bogomil (ed.), FERFILA, Bogomil. Travelling with Europe : Slovenia in European Union : Slovenija v Evropski uniji,. Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede, 2005, p. 509-529.
• Baracani, Elena (2005): From the EMP to the ENP: A new European pressure for democratization in the Southern Mediterranean? The case of Morocco, in R. Di Quirico (ed.) Europeanization and Democratization. Institutional Adaptation, Conditionality and Democratisation in European Union’s Neighbour Countries, Florence: European Press Academic Publishing, 261-280
• 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 (2005): From the EMP to the ENP: A new European pressure for democratization?, Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER), Volume 1, Issue 2, 54-67
• Tassinari, Fabrizio (2005): "Security and Integration in the EU Neighbourhood: the Case for Regionalism", CEPS Working Document N. 226, Brussels
• 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
• Popescu, Nicu (2003): European Union's Foreign Policy Change towards Moldova , NATO Studies Centre, Strategic Issues Review 4, Bucharest, Politeia-SNSPA, September 2003