The EU’s Difficulty in Translating Interests into Effective Foreign Policy Action: A Look at the Ukraine Crisis

Smith, Nicholas Ross

doi:10.2478/bjes-2014-0004

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“…Therefore, for Ukrainian future transition to the cluster with a higher level of energy security, it is essential to be guided by some best practices of the countries. For example, as the UK has a leading position among countries in Energy Security Risk Index it may be speculated that the UK could become an example for Ukraine (Smith, 2014). It should be mentioned that the UK has one of the most reliable electricity systems in the world, and high standards of security of supply have been maintained even though margins for generation supply over demand have fallen as older (mainly coal-fired power stations) have been closed.…”

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Trends of International Energy Security Risk Index in European Countries

Chernyak

Kharlamova

Stavytskyy

2018

Baltic Journal of European Studies

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The paper deals with the analysis and forecasting of energy security risk index for eleven European countries (the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, and Ukraine for the period 1992-2016). Nowadays, energy security plays an important role in guaranteeing the national, political and economic security of the country. A literature review of different approaches to defining energy security gave the possibility to consider the regression model of energy security risk index assessment, which takes into account the levels of economic, technical and technological, ecological, social and resource components. This step was proceeded with clusterization of the analysed countries in three groups according to Energy Security Risk Index. Based on this approach resource-mining countries (Denmark, Germany, Norway and the UK) were grouped in Cluster I, while Ukraine occupied the last Cluster III. The next division in five clusters supported the indicated allocation. Finally, we calculated the forecasts of energy security risk index based on data of 1992-2014. It allowed realizing the perspectives of energy market for the nearest future, particularly for Ukraine, which needs development of a new strategy of energy security

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Trends of International Energy Security Risk Index in European Countries

Chernyak

Kharlamova

Stavytskyy

2018

Baltic Journal of European Studies

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“…This Russian response to EU association policy transformed tacit competition over Ukraine into open geopolitical confrontation within a European bipolar power constellation (N.R. Smith, , p. 57). Although the Ukrainian government had long tried to balance the EU against Russia (Dragneva and Wolczuk, , p. 83), it now faced a choice between two mutually exclusive agreements, the Eurasian Customs Union and the AA.…”

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“…Observers identify geopolitical competition between the EU and Russia (Charap and Troitskiy, ; Dragneva and Wolczuk, ) and attribute at least some capacity to pursue great power politics to the EU in its own right (Cadier, ; N.R. Smith, ). In contrast, foreign policy action of its bigger Member States seems to be of secondary relevance.…”

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“…The crisis is widely seen as a Russian reaction to Western eastward expansion (Mearsheimer, 2014). Observers identify geopolitical competition between the EU and Russia (Charap and Troitskiy, 2013;Dragneva and Wolczuk, 2012) and attribute at least some capacity to pursue great power politics to the EU in its own right (Cadier, 2014;N.R. Smith, 2014).…”

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The European Union as an Inadvertent Great Power: EU Actorness and the Ukraine Crisis

Gehring

Urbanski

Oberthür

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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We examine how the EU can act as a great power in its own right even in the absence of military capability and how its institutional structure conditions this ability. We first theorize EU great power politics. Based on theories of corporate action, the EU constitutes a strong market power in its own right and a weak security power. While it is institutionally ill‐equipped to purposefully mobilize its market power to pursue high‐politics goals, its communitarized external relations may inadvertently challenge important security interests of other great powers. Second, we show that the EU acted as an inadvertent great power vis‐à‐vis Russia in its Ukraine policy which was primarily driven by the supranational decision‐making apparatus and low‐politics considerations, but engendered a bipolar power struggle with Russia over Ukraine. The risks inherent in EU inadvertent great power politics are deeply engrained in the EU's institutional structure and therefore difficult to mitigate.

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The attitude of Germany and Great Britain towards the Ukraine’s accession to the European Union

Krushynska¹

2015

ESR

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The EU’s Difficulty in Translating Interests into Effective Foreign Policy Action: A Look at the Ukraine Crisis

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Trends of International Energy Security Risk Index in European Countries

Trends of International Energy Security Risk Index in European Countries

The European Union as an Inadvertent Great Power: EU Actorness and the Ukraine Crisis

The attitude of Germany and Great Britain towards the Ukraine’s accession to the European Union

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