The EEAS and the Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: What Institutional Balance?

Kostanyan, Hrant

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“…However, despite the fact that: there was a large consensus among the member states that the EU needs to do something as a reaction to the revolutions unfolding in the Arab world, the member states did not have a clear understanding what that something should be. (Kostanyan, 2013) In practice, these calls for change resulted in continuity following the lines of 'deeper economic integration, broader market access and closer political cooperation' (European Council, 2011a: 9).…”

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Epistemic (un)certainty in times of crisis: The role of coherence as a social convention in the European Neighbourhood Policy after the Arab Spring

Natorski

2016

European Journal of International Relations

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Academic wisdom assumes that crises precipitate institutional and policy changes in domestic and international politics. However, the relation between crises and policy outcomes is under-theorised. This article conceptualises epistemic coherence as a factor that links crises and their consequences through policy continuity. Crises expose contradictions and inconsistencies, which create uncertainty. Therefore, actors seek to recover the epistemic certainty provided by coherence, which tacitly informs, structures and simplifies actors’ interpretation of reality, even during crisis. For this reason, the role of coherence in policy ideas and institutional rules remains essential to understanding policy continuity. This article illustrates the role of coherence in the policy continuity of the European Neighbourhood Policy in the context of the Arab Spring and the changes in the institutional architecture of European Union foreign policy during 2010–2011.

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Epistemic (un)certainty in times of crisis: The role of coherence as a social convention in the European Neighbourhood Policy after the Arab Spring

Natorski

2016

European Journal of International Relations

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“…On the one hand, pre-existing institutional routines have been disrupted. Yet, the recalibration of the EU's external services and the increasingly volatile environment in its neighbourhood opens up space for innovation and agenda capture (see Baltag and Smith 2015;Helwig, Ivan, and Kostanyan 2013;Kostanyan 2013;Sęk 2013). Both these interesting empirical puzzles are addressed by a number of contributions in this Special Issue.…”

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Assessing the performance of the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe and in its neighbourhood

Papadimitriou

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Surubaru

2017

East European Politics

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More than a decade after the big bang enlargement, it seems that the European Union (EU) and its Central and Eastern European member-states have mutually adapted to one another. The debates regarding the historical implications of enlargement have now reduced in tempo and much of Eastern Europe seems to be an integral part of the European integration project. After the accession of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007 (and Croatia in 2013), and in light of the EU's internal troubles, enlargement has been sidelined from the EU agenda. The issue of the EU's performance in the "wider Eastern Europe" remains poignant, not least because of current developments in its "neighbourhood" (such as the crisis in Ukraine or Moldova's downturn from success story to a captured state), the uneven pattern of reform across some of the recently admitted states (such as the turmoil in Hungary and Poland or the ongoing monitoring of Bulgaria and Romania in the area of rule of law), and the evident slow pace of progress and even back-sliding in parts of the Western Balkans (e.g. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia). These cases, inter alia, illustrate that the EU's performance in the area is neither linear nor uncontested. Thus, questions regarding EU performance reoccur frequently and very often, its "transformative power" can be called into question. What determines EU performance in Central and Eastern Europe and in its Neighbourhood? What are the conditions that influence it? This collective inquiry addresses some of these questions. Much of the EU's own discourse puts emphasis on "performance" as a key driver of its policies and engagement with its partners (

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The EEAS and the Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: What Institutional Balance?

Cited by 2 publications

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Epistemic (un)certainty in times of crisis: The role of coherence as a social convention in the European Neighbourhood Policy after the Arab Spring

Epistemic (un)certainty in times of crisis: The role of coherence as a social convention in the European Neighbourhood Policy after the Arab Spring

Assessing the performance of the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe and in its neighbourhood

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