Protecting and Promoting Europe: The ENP and the Security-Democracy Nexus in Partner States

Silander, Daniel; Nilsson, Martin

doi:10.1080/19361610.2014.942824

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“…Since the establishment of the ENP in 2004, scholars such as Lavenex and Schimmelfenning (2009) have researched the ENP’s external dimension and the EU’s attempts to form a single voice on the relations with the Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia (see also Christou, 2010; Silander and Nilsson, 2014). The goal of the ENP is to promote the EU’s ideals of good governance (such as fair elections, the rule of law and consideration for human rights) in EU neighbour states (cf.…”

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The role of territoriality in the European Union multi-level governmental cooperation framework of Finnish–Russian cross-border cooperation

Koch

2017

European Urban and Regional Studies

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The economic sanctions in the wake of the Ukrainian crisis threatened external cross-border cooperation (CBC) funded by the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) in the summer of 2014. The European Union considered several of the ENI CBC programmes that Finland and Russia participate in for the sanctions list. These programmes are implemented by a multiplicity of actors that include supra-national, national and regional authorities and form a dense actor-network with vertical and horizontal relations. The political relations between the actors are influenced by geopolitical discourses, bordering effects and power imbalances that are conceptualised in this paper as practices of territoriality. Previous research has insufficiently addressed the territoriality of actor relations within the multi-level governance (MLG) structures of CBC. Territoriality is present in MLG in the sense that CBC actors from various political levels significantly contribute to the territorial logic of political power by promoting their own interests towards cooperation practices. The research problem in this paper stems from the alleged non-hierarchical organisation of actors in CBC and argues that MLG policy structures do not render equality among the different actors and that they fail to consider the impact of territoriality. The paper investigates how territoriality influences the actor relations in the MLG structure of ENI CBC and how the actors cope with the frictions that emerge out of territoriality. Qualitative interviews reveal a conflicting system of governance in Finnish–Russian ENI CBC that fluctuates between state centrality and region-based initiatives to address frictions of various territorialit(ies) produced by actors.

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Section: Territoriality and Its Impact On Cross-border Cooperation Acmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of territoriality in the European Union multi-level governmental cooperation framework of Finnish–Russian cross-border cooperation

Koch

2017

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Democracy in Europe: Enlarged But Eroding—A Union in Existential Crisis

Silander

2023

The EU Between Federal Union and Flexible Integration

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A new geopolitical stalemate: revisiting the EU’s neighbourhood policy in Georgia

Karadağ

2024

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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Recent and recurrent food crises in the Sahel region and in the Horn of Africa, where more than 30 million people are suffering from hunger, have underscored the need to work on a long-term and systematic approach to building the resilience of vulnerable countries and populations.The effects of economic shocks, rising and fluctuating food prices, demographic pressure, climate change, desertification, environmental degradation, pressure on natural resources, inappropriate land tenure systems, insufficient investment in agriculture, have, in many parts of the world, resulted in greater exposure to risk, notably from natural hazards. The impact of these global trends is manifested in the increasing number and intensity of natural disasters and crises. The poorest households are the most vulnerable and in many instances this vulnerability is compounded by political instability and conflict. In the case of food insecurity, despite some progress, one billion people are still suffering from hunger and the issue is particularly acute in drought-prone areas where most of the population depends directly on agriculture and pastoralism.

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Protecting and Promoting Europe: The ENP and the Security-Democracy Nexus in Partner States

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

The role of territoriality in the European Union multi-level governmental cooperation framework of Finnish–Russian cross-border cooperation

The role of territoriality in the European Union multi-level governmental cooperation framework of Finnish–Russian cross-border cooperation

Democracy in Europe: Enlarged But Eroding—A Union in Existential Crisis

A new geopolitical stalemate: revisiting the EU’s neighbourhood policy in Georgia

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