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Hann, Hayward (2016)

A Nosy Neighbour: The European Neighbourhood Policy, Eastern Partnership, and Russia

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

Using case studies on Armenia and Moldova, this thesis contributes to the already rich body of literature that situates the position of the countries of Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus in their relations with the European Union and Russia. This thesis evidences a noticeable shift in emphasis in the European Union’s primary documents relating to the European Neighbourhood Policy and Eastern Partnership after the Georgia/Russia war in 2008. After this war, the European Union’s ‘common values,’ more widely known as liberal values, become focal. Effectively, this emphasis on common vales has further distanced the European Union and Russia, an authoritarian state which has recently taken a ‘conservative turn.’ This widening distance between the EU and Russia has made existing between the two actors more difficult for the countries trapped in the in-between.

European Neighbourhood Policy

Eastern Partnership

Armenia

Moldova

Russia

Author

Hann, Hayward

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

EU Studies

Supervisors

David, Maxine

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en