The EU and Ukraine

MacFarlane, Neil; Menon, Anand

doi:10.1080/00396338.2014.920139

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“…As is well documented, cooperation among EU member states within EU institutions can be a thorny undertaking. In light of all the crises that have beset the EU in recent years, realist observers have in particular pointed to the EU's inability to act and criticized its lack of appropriate joint policy-responses to contemporary challenges such as external migration or a changing international security landscape (see for example MacFarlane and Menon 2014;Mearsheimer, 2014;Posen, 2014;Walt 2014). External actors might also serve to undermine EU unity, for example through attempts to 'divide and conquer', as we have seen on issues linked to access to natural resources (Russia) or in relation to trade (China; Riddervold and Rosen 2018, 555-570).…”

Section: Differentiated Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition to these more immediate crises, the EU must also confront a number of more long-term challenges, not least the global financial crisis; as well as climate change and the environmental challenges associated with global warming (cf. Caporaso and Rhodes 2016;Cross and Karolewski 2017;Hume and Pawle 2015;MacFarlane and Menon 2014;Mearsheimer 2014;Pop 2015). Many of these challenges are facing the US as well.…”

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Transatlantic relations in times of uncertainty: crises and EU-US relations

Riddervold

Newsome

2018

Journal of European Integration

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Ties between the US and the EU rival those between any other pair of international actors. This Special Issue makes conceptual progress and empirical contributions in accounting for if and how EU-US relations have been impacted by a context of multiple crises and a parallel change in US policies. All the articles find strong evidence to suggest that EU-US relations are weakening. This is partly a consequence of the EU's own, internal policies, as it becomes more unified and autonomous of the US in some areas, while fragmenting in others. Most importantly, it is a consequence of the two actors' increasingly diverging perspectives and positions on international issues, institutions, norms and indeed the value of the transatlantic relationship as such. Although the longterm effects remain to be seen, it is likely that the cracks in the foundation of transatlantic relations will continue into the present and foreseeable future.CONTACT Marianne Riddervold marianne.riddervold@inn.no,

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Section: Differentiated Relationsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Transatlantic relations in times of uncertainty: crises and EU-US relations

Riddervold

Newsome

2018

Journal of European Integration

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“…Most importantly, however, in order for the realist inspired conception of EU foreign policy as determined by the most powerful states to be confirmed, there would have to be a specific interest on the part of the great powers to drive through an agreement on sanctions. Even realists themselves have confirmed that this was not the case: ‘Others (Germany and the United Kingdom) have long had substantial trade, investment and financial ties to Russia and fear that these would be jeopardised by robust retaliation’ (MacFarlane and Menon, , p. 100).…”

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Arguing Sanctions. On the EU's Response to the Crisis in Ukraine

Sjursen

Rosén

2016

J of Common Market Studies

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Despite diverging perspectives and interests, the EU's Member States have forged a common response to the Russia-Ukraine crisis. How can this be? In this article, we suggest that in order to explain the Member States' ability to reach agreement in this case, we must take into account the normative force of the arguments presented in favour of a common response. We find that neither a concern for security (as would be expected from a realist perspective) nor the institutionalization of a norm of cohesion (which would be the constructivist expectation) triggered the collective response. Instead, agreement was established due to concurrence over a fundamental breach of the Ukrainians' right to self-determination. This finding is significant in theoretical terms in that it confirms that norms may trump interests. It does not, however, allow for definite conclusions with regard to the robustness of integration in EU foreign policy.

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“…Negotiations with Ukraine were handled, not by the European External Action Service (which was only launched in 2010) or by the European Council , but by the European Commission , under the leadership of Commissioner for Enlargement and the Neighborhood, Štefan Füle. In general, as we have seen, the Commission can be faulted for engaging in negotiations with Kyiv without any sense of the broader political context or stakes, and for failing to anticipate Russia's reaction to its overtures to Ukraine (MacFarlane and Menon, ). The Vice President of the Commission was also the High Representative for the EU's Foreign and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton.…”

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‘Stability on the Borders’: The Ukraine Crisis and the EU's Constrained Policy Towards the Eastern Neighbourhood

Howorth

2016

J of Common Market Studies

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The Ukraine crisis itself is, to some extent, the result of a flawed approach on the part of the EU to the strategic question of its relationships with its Eastern neighbours, an approach rendered more fraught by the parallel American enlargement of NATO. The EU has found itself constrained in its reaction to the Ukraine crisis by policies adopted over previous decades. In the first part, this article will situate the crisis in the historical context of the twin enlargements of the EU and NATO. Secondly, it will assess the consequences of the European neighbourhood policy in fostering the crisis. In the third part, this article will argue that, during the crisis itself, the EU acted in ways that were more constraining than enabling. Finally, the article will evaluate the EU's response in terms of the criteria laid out in the Introductory Framework to this Special Issue.

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The EU and Ukraine

Cited by 56 publications

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Transatlantic relations in times of uncertainty: crises and EU-US relations

Transatlantic relations in times of uncertainty: crises and EU-US relations

Arguing Sanctions. On the EU's Response to the Crisis in Ukraine

‘Stability on the Borders’: The Ukraine Crisis and the EU's Constrained Policy Towards the Eastern Neighbourhood

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