The EU’s neighborhood policy towards the Southern Caucasus: searching for commonality in a patchy scenario

• Authors: Sanda-Daniela Alexeiciuc , Kirill N. Babichenko
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper explains the difficulties that have been emerging for the Southern Caucasus regarding these countries’ relationship with and towards the EU. Through the deconstruction of the area’s particularities and specificities, and its framing in the EU’s policy to the region, this paper aims at analyzing the implications of the transition efforts and stability in the area for Europe in general, along with the different roles each of these pieces - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - play in the complex strategic Caucasian puzzle.

Keywords

EN

International politics; security; democratization; cooperation; socio-economic; negotiation

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 75-101

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2014-02-27

Contributors

author

Sanda-Daniela Alexeiciuc

• Director; MA in Human Rights Center of Development of Health and Education (CEDES) (Moldova) Yerevan State University Center of European Studies (Armenia)

author

Kirill N. Babichenko

• Executive Director; Assistant Professor of Law, Ph.D. Center of Development of Health and Education (CEDES) (Moldova) Russian State Humanitarian University (Russian Federation)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/bjlp-2013-0012