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Evropska politika susedstva, izneverena očekivanja
European Neighbourhood Policy: Failed Expectations?

Author(s): Maja Kovačević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: European Union; European Neighourhood Policy; EU foreign policy; Eastern Partnership; Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.

Summary/Abstract: European Neighourhood Policy (ENP), launched 2004 as an instrument of closer relations with neighbours at east and south of Europe, was from the very beggining overambitious and contradictory policy. ENP not only overemphasizied the EU normative power, but EU influence could not prevent political and security set-backs in the east, nor destabilisation in the south. EU influence on reforms, democratization processes, foreign policies or conflict resolution in Eastern partnership countries is limited, while eastern regimes are more and more authoritarian and countries stucked in partial market reforms. In the south, Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Union for Mediterranean are facing new ahallenges after Arab spring. EU announced more strict use of conditionality as an incentive for political reforms, but power of EU conditionality towards countries which have not prospect or desire to become EU members is questionnable

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Range: 101-118
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian