The European Union's Relations with Ukraine and Azerbaijan

Franke, Anja; Gawrich, Andrea; Melnykovska, Inna; Schweickert, Rainer

doi:10.2747/1060-586x.26.2.149

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“…Our research indicates that the EU's ambitious value-laden agenda can be understood to partly alienate potential partners in neighbouring states in that it suggests different categories of 'Europeanness' based on the degree of local convergence to proclaimed EU standards (Christou and Croft 2012;Franke et al 2010;Raik 2011;Wisniewski 2013). Civil society actors in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine have been among the most vocal in this regardthey take umbrage with the idea that there might be an EU 'moral hegemony'.…”

Section: Perceptions Of Eu Unilateralismmentioning

confidence: 86%

The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood

Liikanen¹,

Scott²,

Sotkasiira³

2016

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The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, impacts which are not yet fully worked through: changes in state-society relations, a comprehensive reconfiguration of political, economic and social ties, the resurgence of regional conflicts 'frozen' during the Soviet period, and new migration patterns both towards Russia and the European Union. At the same time the EU has emerged as an important player in the region, formulating its European Neighbourhood Policy, and engaging neighbouring states in a process of cross-border regional co-operation. This book explores a wide range of complex and contested questions related to borders, security and migration in the emerging 'European Neighbourhood' which includes countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia as well as the countries which immediately border the EU. Issues discussed include new forms of regional and cross-border co-operation, new patterns of migration, and the potential role of the EU as a stabilizing external force.

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Section: Perceptions Of Eu Unilateralismmentioning

confidence: 86%

The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood

Liikanen¹,

Scott²,

Sotkasiira³

2016

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“…Yet in practice, while the relationship has certainly developed in that direction to an extent, we 10 observe that the proposed policies, and therefore the negotiation practices, remain very one-sided. Azerbaijan views itself as an equal if not stronger partner than the EU (Franke et al 2010) and therefore disagrees with the EU-centred policies and the EU's tendency to dictate policy rather than engage in dialogue.…”

Section: A New Model Of Bargaining Power To Assess Negotiation Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From ‘Unilateral’ to ‘Dialogical’: Determinants of EU–Azerbaijan Negotiations

Gils¹

2022

The European Union, Russia and the Post-Soviet Space

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The European Union (EU) and Azerbaijan have negotiated three different agreements for a new legal basis underpinning their relationship since 2010. Whereas the EU tries to adhere to a more unilateral approach, Azerbaijan wants cooperation to take place on a more inclusive, dialogical, basis. The essay will present a model of 'bargaining power' to analyse how the Azerbaijani government has tried to enforce this, and to what degree it has been successful. It finds that the bargaining power model can explain some of the changing power dynamics in EU-Azerbaijan relations, and that these might speak to the broader Eurasian region too. RELATIONS BETWEEN AZERBAIJAN AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) 1 HAVE BECOME MORE AND MORE INTENSE over the past decades. Cooperation is particularly smooth in the area of energy supply as well as trade. However, The fieldwork for this research was made possible through the generous financial support of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, BASEES, and UACES. I would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their time and effort in reading the first draft of the essay and for making very helpful suggestions. Further gratitude is due to the organisers and participants of the conference 'Beyond Vilnius: The European Union and the Emerging Eurasian Space' at the University of Trento, 29-30 January 2016, for providing such in-depth feedback on the initial version of this essay, to peers at the BASEES Annual Conference 2017, to colleagues at the Global Europe Centre, and especially also the editors, for their very helpful comments on later drafts.

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“…Yet in practice, while the relationship has certainly developed in that direction to an extent, we 28 'Baku hosts 15th meeting of EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee', AzerTac, 8 May 2018, available at: https://azertag.az/en/xeber/1160813; 'Azerbaijan, EU discuss bilateral cooperation', AzerTac, 20 February 2018, available at: https://azertag.az/en/xeber/1138634, accessed 6 September 2018. observe that the proposed policies, and therefore the negotiation practices, remain very one-sided. Azerbaijan views itself as an equal if not stronger partner than the EU (Franke et al 2010) and therefore disagrees with the EU-centred policies and the EU's tendency to dictate policy rather than engage in dialogue.…”

Section: A New Model Of Bargaining Power To Assess Negotiation Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%