Naslov
Reshaping/Unbundling of the EU's territoriality through EU's external governance: the case of Eastern Partnership

Autori
Čvrljak, Saša

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Borders around the Globe: Psychological, Territorial and Digital Aspects, 6th bilateral conference organized jointly by the Institute for International Relations and Universities from Japan.

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 08.09.2011. - 09.09.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
EU territoriality; EU’s external governance; European Neighbourhood Policy; Eastern Partnership; sectoral integration

Sažetak
EU as the post-modern (post-Westphalian) polity represents alternative entity to immutable and natural relations between territory, identity and citizenship (Diez, 2002). Its development since the late 1980s has particularly boosted that dynamics by developing multi-level governance and shaping variable geometry model marked by the different integration intensity by different EU countries. Still, that relation that transcends the intra-EU territoriality has important external dimension towards the non-EU countries as well. Namely, the EU does reinforce its territoriality, just this time at its regional level that constitutes the “sharp edges of Europe” (Butt, 2000). Therefore, this paper focuses on the EU's external governance as a mean of “softening” these borders through the case study of Eastern Partnership. EU's external governance represents the expansion of EU rules beyond EU borders (Lavenex, Schimmelfennig, 2009: 791) that constitutes a new perspective on the EU's international role (Lavenex 2004: 682). This has particularly being embedded within the recently launched Eastern Partnership (EaP). EaP is launched in 2009 within the European Neighbourhood Policy's ambit, trying to accelerate political association and further economic integration between the EU and six interested partner countries (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia) through developing new contractual relations (Association Agreements), trade ties, enhancing visa and energy relations that all provides blueprint for reforms and bringing the EaP countries closer to the EU. Essentially, EaP epitomizes EU's external governance because EU's external governance follows a sectoral, policy-specific logic. In that sense, the EU through the EaP expands regulatory influence and extends its internal policies towards the third countries, thus aiming to gain control over their policy developments and anchoring them into joint regulatory networks. Consequently, inclusion of the non-EU countries into joint regulatory orbit and their sectoral approximation with the EU acquis through creation of the “spaces of flows” (Blatter, 2004: 547) actually unbundles the EU territoriality.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija

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