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EU foreign policy and post-Soviet conflicts : stealth intervention

Title
EU foreign policy and post-Soviet conflicts : stealth intervention / Nicu Popescu.
Author
Popescu, Nicu.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

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xvi, 157 pages : maps; 24 cm
Summary
The European Union is still emerging as a fully fledged foreign policy actor. The vagaries of this process are clearly visible, yet insufficiently explained in the EU policies towards the post-Soviet space. EU Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Conflicts examines EU intervention and non-intervention in conflict resolution, with a specific focus on the EU's role in the post-soviet conflicts in the South Caucasus and Moldova: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria. It explains how EU foreign policy affected these conflicts, but more importantly what EU intervention in these conflicts reveal about the EU itself. Based on extensive field research, the author argues that the reluctant EU intervention in post-Soviet conflicts results from a dichotomous relationship between EU institutions and some EU member states. Popescu argues this demonstrates that EU institutions use policies of 'stealth intervention' where they seek to play a greater role in the post-Soviet space, but they do so through relatively low-profile, uncontroversial and depoliticized actions in order to avoid visible Russian opposition. Exploring an array of questions related to the EU as a foreign policy actor, this book traces the politics of conflict intervention by EU institutions using original empirical data related to the EU decision making process.
Series Statement
Routledge advances in European politics ; 71
Uniform Title
Routledge advances in European politics ; 71.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- EU foreign policy and conflict management -- The EU's piecemeal involvement in Transnistria -- The EU's reluctant engagement in Abkhazia and South Ossetia -- The EU's non-involvement in Nagorno-Karabakh -- Conclusions : the EU's involvement and reluctance.
Call Number
JFE 15-7882
ISBN
  • 9780415587204 (alk. paper)
  • 0415587204 (alk. paper)
  • 9780203834787 (alk. paper)
  • 020383478X (alk. paper)
LCCN
2010025696
OCLC
643082319
Author
Popescu, Nicu.
Title
EU foreign policy and post-Soviet conflicts : stealth intervention / Nicu Popescu.
Imprint
London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Routledge advances in European politics ; 71
Routledge advances in European politics ; 71.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 15-7882
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