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EURR 5205

The European Union and its Eastern Neighbours

0.5 credit · Graduate

The EU's European Neighbourhood Policy and Eastern partnership policy, the Russia-EU “strategic partnership”. Policies and reactions of non-EU East European countries toward the EU. The interaction of Member state policies and EU policies. May include attention to historical legacies, cultural factors, public opinion, energy security.

2025

Topics

  • Introduction to the course
  • From Ukraine crisis (2014) to Ukraine war (2022)
  • New candidate states and reform difficulties (Ukraine, Moldova, )
  • Changing geopolitical configurations in the Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Georgia)
  • SIMULATION
  • The EU’s security dilemma
  • Competing regionalism (Belarus, Armenia)

Readings

  • Frédéric Mérand and Antoine Rayroux, “Foreign, Security, and Defense Policies,” in European Union Governance and Policy-Making, Chpt. 9 Eds. A. Verdun, A. Hurrelmann, and E. Brunet-
  • Jailly (University of Toronto Press, 2023).
  • Recommended: Manners, Ian (2002). “Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?” Journal of Common Market Studies 40:2, 235-258 Hyde Price (2008) “A ‘tragic actor’? A realist perspective on ‘ethical power Europe’,”
  • Irina Petrova & Laure Delcour (2019) From principle to practice? The resilience–local ownership nexus in the EU Eastern Partnership policy, Contemporary Security
  • Policy, DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2019.1678280 Laure Delcour and Elsa Tulmets (2009), “Pioneer Europe? The ENP as a Test Case for the EU’s Foreign Policy,” European Foreign Affairs Review 14 (2009), pp. 501-523
  • David Cadier (2018), “The Geopoliticisation of the EU’s Eastern Partnership, Geopolitics 24 (1): 71-99, DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2018.1477754
  • Hiski Haukkala (2016)” A Perfect Storm; Or What Went Wrong and What Went Right for the EU in Ukraine,” Europe-Asia Studies 68 (4): 653-664, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1156055
  • Bosse, G. (2024), “The EU's Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Invoking Norms and Values in Times of Fundamental Rupture,” JCMS: Journal of Common
  • Market Studies, 62: 1222–1238. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13569 Khudoley, K.(2022), “New Russia-West Confrontation: War of Attribution or Escalation” Strategic Analysis 46(6): 571–84, https:
  • doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2022.2149980 Kristi Raik (2019), “The Ukraine Crisis as a Conflict over Europe’s Political, Economic and Security Order,” Geopolitics 24(1): 51-70

Prerequisites & course information

Also listed as INAF 5807 , PSCI 5111 .

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