European Engagement Under Review: Exporting Values, Rules, and Practices to the Post-Soviet Space

by Charlene Peterson (Editor)

Overview

This timely book seeks to contribute to the debate on the transfer of values, rules, and practices by European actors to former Soviet countries. The actors in focus include multilateral organizations, such as the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as European governments and non-governmental organizations. The contributions in this collection address different aspects of the export or transfer of values, such as democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, as well as rules and practices in the fields of education and migration management, examining the motives, mechanisms, and effects of European engagement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783838208909
Publisher:	Ibidem Press
Publication date:	04/26/2016
Series:	Interdisciplinary Series of the Centre for Intercultural and
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Vera Axyonova is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Justus Liebig University Giessen and Fulda University of Applied Sciences. She is also a Hurford Next Generation Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She earned her Ph.D from the University of Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen.

Table of Contents

Editorial v

Acknowledgements vii

On the export of European values, rules and practices: Introducing the debate Vera Axyonova 1

The EU's policy of democracy promotion and Ukraine's bumpy path to the Association Agreement-amidst a major crisis in Europe Elena Kropatcheva 11

Provisionally unsuccessful? European democracy promotion in the South Caucasus Shushanik Minasyan 41

Governance and governmentality of EU Neighbourhood Policy. Two perspectives on the role of civil society in external democracy promotion Aron Buzogány 59

The European Union's assistance to Kyrgyzstan: Good intentions, mixed results Aijan Sharshenova 85

Poland's democracy promotion in Belarus-closer to the US' or the EU's approach? Tsveta Petrova 109

Academic cooperation with Russian higher education institutions: German organisations as transfer agents? René Lenz 125

That's what friends are for-external migration management of the European Union in its eastern neighbourhood Bettina Bruns Helga Zichner 151

Inescapable partners: The European Union and the Council of Europe as rule of law promoters in Ukraine Olga Burlyuk 177

List of contributors 203