The Economic Rationale of the “European Neighbourhood Policy”

Milcher, Susanne; Slay, Ben; Collins, Mark

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511611056.010

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“…The 2003 EU Security Strategy pointed to the necessity for a “ring of well‐governed countries” in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean (quoted in Fischer :32), which the ENP attempted to ensure with the provision of various incentives for neighbors to gradually meet EU standards (Smith :763). The ENP was also conceptualized as an alternative to EU membership for countries at the edges of the European Union (Milcher, Slay, and Collins :3) that would secure borders in a wider European geographical area (Sasse :295). The policy then served as the basis on which individual Action Plans were elaborated for each neighbor.…”

Section: Causes Of Moldova's Shiftmentioning

confidence: 99%

Balancing on the Shoulders of Giants: Moldova's Foreign Policy toward Russia and the European Union

Cantir

Kennedy

2014

Foreign Policy Anal

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“Soft balancing” has emerged as a way to reconcile realist theory with the lack of hard balancing behavior against US hegemony. Scholars continue, however, to disagree on the concept's utility and causes. Consistent with its realist roots, scholars have primarily focused on power imbalance and external threat to security as causes of soft balancing. This article analyzes Moldova's major foreign policy shift in the mid‐2000s. It argues that this was a clear example of soft balancing and that it adds several important insights into the causes of soft balancing. While the power imbalance and external threat from Russia were persistent throughout Moldova's post‐independence history, the country only adopted a soft balancing strategy once Russia posed a threat to the internal stability of the government and changes in EU policy created a permissive international environment for the strategy. Moreover, we argue that the domestic political environment played a key role in enabling the adoption of this strategy. This article therefore diversifies the analysis of the causes of soft balancing and provides a theoretical answer for the puzzle of Moldova's pro‐Western turn in 2003.

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Section: Causes Of Moldova's Shiftmentioning

confidence: 99%

Balancing on the Shoulders of Giants: Moldova's Foreign Policy toward Russia and the European Union

Cantir

Kennedy

2014

Foreign Policy Anal

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“…More generally, there is doubt as to whether the lack of a clear offer of EU membership can mobilize the governments of neighboring countries to conduct the dificult and sometimes unpopular economic and institutional reforms required to align with the acquis (Milcher et al 2007). On the other hand, one could question whether the perspective of EU membership, even if hypothetically provided, would be interesting and attractive enough for all the neighboring countries, many of which have different historical and cultural backgrounds, and different geopolitical and economic priorities than those shared by EU members.…”

Section: Shortcomings Of the Enp And Eapmentioning

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EU Cooperation with Non-Member Neighboring Countries: The Principle of Variable Geometry

Dąbrowski

2014

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“…The EC believes that the ENP could overcome the current limits of the EU-MED partnership and foster the creation of a true Pan European Common Market. Critics claim that such expectations are overstated since neighborhood countries are poorer and more heterogeneous with respect to the new EU member states to follow the same path (Milcher et al, 2007). They also argue that ENP is unlikely to be seen as a fully satisfactory substitute for EU membership and that the ENP process should be seen rather as a way of spoiling SMCs chances for EU accession (Del Sarto and Schumacher, 2005).…”

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Assessing the Trade Impact of the European Neighborhood Policy on EU-MED Free Trade Area

Montalbano

Nenci²

2012

SSRN Journal

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The goal of this paper is to provide an "ex ante" assessment of the long-run "treatment" effect of ENP on EU-MED Free Trade Area. Supplementary objectives are the presentation of new up-to-date "in-sample" estimates of the actual trade potential in the Pan-european Common Market as well as more robust estimates of the trade enhancing impact of EU deep integration policy. The novel aspect of this work is twofold: i) to present nonparametric matching estimators along with gravity estimates; ii) to assume, as a counterfactual (i.e., the hypothetical situation of ENP full implementation), the ex-post long-run average treatment effect of the Europe Agreements, which are the unique experience to date of "full partnership without membership". Our empirical outcomes show a likely strong and robust impact on EU-MED trade integration of the new "deep integration" efforts made by the EU. This is confirmed by both the applied dummy strategy and the non parametric matching technique. This result seems to be linked to other factors than simply trade preferences alone. Our empirical evidence is relevant both to policymaking, since it provides an "ex ante" assessment of the efficacy of deep integration under the EU-MED regional cooperation framework, and to the methodological point of view, since it contributes to improvements in empirical estimates of the "policy impact" of EU preferential agreements.

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The Economic Rationale of the “European Neighbourhood Policy”

Cited by 9 publications

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Balancing on the Shoulders of Giants: Moldova's Foreign Policy toward Russia and the European Union

Balancing on the Shoulders of Giants: Moldova's Foreign Policy toward Russia and the European Union

EU Cooperation with Non-Member Neighboring Countries: The Principle of Variable Geometry

Assessing the Trade Impact of the European Neighborhood Policy on EU-MED Free Trade Area

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