Abstract
Focusing on the Eastern Partnership Programme (EPP), this paper ponders on discerning a principal reason because of which the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was not able to help the EU in establishing and running a proper strategic framework where the entity could feel confident and secure, comfortably ‘communicating’ with its immediate neighbourhood in the European East. The article represents an interpretational type of theoretical analysis and argues that pure political driving forces of desirable cooperational or confrontational activities dramatically affect the outcome. This paper claims that the EPP’s ‘innate’ functional nature has been clashing with the EU’s status of a de facto contemporary political empire, and the situation has eventually resulted in the self-admitted necessity for the EU to comprehensively revise the ENP/EPP. The argument here is as follows: being a function-driven entity presumes relative freedom in making choices; being an empire leaves an entity with no other choice but to ‘behave’ like an empire in terms of expanding further into its periphery.
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Notes
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Dostoevsky (1917), Part 5, Chapter 4.
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Cottey (2012), p. 375.
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European Neighbourhood Policy (2015).
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Gould (2004), p. 195.
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Haukkala (2008), pp. 1604–1605, 1618.
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Edwards (2008), p. 46.
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Prodi (2002b), as cited in Wilson (2013), p. 77.
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See Consolidated version of the Treaty on European Union (2012), p. 43, Article 49.
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Vernygora (2013).
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Neighbourhood at the crossroads—taking stock of a year of challenges (2014).
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Towards a new European Neighbourhood Policy (2015).
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Dimitrovova (2012), p. 249.
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Keohane (1984), p. 21.
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Vernygora (2013), p. 94.
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Dimitrovova (2012), p. 253.
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Gould (2004), pp. 172–173.
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Edwards (2008), p. 46.
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Zielonka (2012), p. 502.
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Dimitrovova (2012), p. 251.
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See Troitiño (2013).
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See McCormick (2010).
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See Holland (2004).
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See Chaban and Holland (2008).
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Cottey (2012), p. 376.
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Parker (2010), p. 127.
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Dimitrovova (2012), p. 251.
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Howe (2002), p. 30.
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Zielonka (2011), p. 337.
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Zielonka (2012), p. 509.
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See Mommsen (1981).
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See Doyle (1986).
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See Gravier (2009).
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See Dimitrovova (2012).
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See Nexon and Wright (2007).
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Zielonka (2012, p. 509).
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Parker (2010), p. 128.
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Zielonka (2011), p. 338.
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Zielonka (2012), p. 502.
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Putin (2014).
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See Mearsheimer (2014).
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Gravier (2009), p. 632.
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Zielonka (2006), p. 11.
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Parker (2010), p. 124.
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See Haas (1958).
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Smith (2004), p. 28.
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McGowan (2007).
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See Vernygora and Chaban (2008).
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Mitrany (1975a), p. 99.
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Groom (1999), p. 221.
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Edwards (2008), p. 45.
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Mitrany (1975b), p. 145.
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Smith (2004), p. 22.
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Keohane (1984), p. 49.
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Emerson (2011), p. 50.
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Prodi (2002a) as cited in Hemmer Pihl (2002).
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Emerson (2011), p. 50.
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Prodi (2002a).
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See Wilson (2005).
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Wagstyl and Olearchyk (2007).
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Vernygora and Chaban (2008), p. 140.
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Silander and Nilsson (2013), p. 455.
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Vernygora (2014).
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Ashton and Füle (2011).
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Chaban and Vernygora (2013), p. 90.
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The EU carried out a consultation on the review of the European Neighbourhood Policy (2015).
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The EU meets Eastern Partnership foreign ministers ahead of November summit (2013).
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Implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy. Eastern Partnership Implementation Report Eastern Partnership Implementation Report (2015).
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The country was already at war with Russia.
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Vernygora, V., Troitiño, D.R., Västra, S. (2016). The Eastern Partnership Programme: Is Pragmatic Regional Functionalism Working for a Contemporary Political Empire?. In: Kerikmäe, T., Chochia, A. (eds) Political and Legal Perspectives of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27383-9_2
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