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The EU’s Eastern Partnership: Normative or Geopolitical Power Projection?

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  • Kamala VALIYEVA

    (Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey)

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This paper examines the European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) initiative through the lens of theoretical debate between constructivist and rationalist approaches with a specific focus on the normative and geopolitical dimensions of the EU’s power projection in a specific region. In doing so the paper aims to determine whether the initiative is a pursuit of the EU’s interests in the post-Soviet area and an attempt to weaken Russia’s traditional great power potential in the region or a policy to enhance regional stability through the promotion of fundamental European values which serves as a framework for democratic institution-building in partner countries. This paper argues that the EU’s ambivalent actorness in this particular post-Soviet region, which is shaped both by value considerations and self-interest concerns, while lacking a strategic coherence, constitutes a fundamental reason behind a policy failure.

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  • Kamala VALIYEVA, 2016. "The EU’s Eastern Partnership: Normative or Geopolitical Power Projection?," Eastern Journal of European Studies, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 7, pages 11-29, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:jes:journl:y:2016:v:7:p:11-29
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