The EU Security Architecture and Networked Governance

2016 ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Giovanni Faleg
Keyword(s):  
Security Architecture ◽  
Networked Governance ◽  
The Eu

Raising its Balkan profile will cost Russia little

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Eu

Subject Russia's contacts with Balkans political parties. Significance For Moscow, connections with Balkan parties are an instrument to exert influence in a region falling within the West's sphere. The declaration the ruling United Russia party signed with parties from Serbia, Bosnia-Hercegovina (BiH), Macedonia and Bulgaria on June 27 called for military neutrality in a Balkan zone of neutral sovereign states within a new pan-European continental security architecture that would exclude NATO membership and hark back to the Yugoslav policy of non-alignment. Impacts Russia will balance NATO expansion into the Western Balkans with initiatives to increase its influence in the region's domestic politics. Moscow will tacitly accept the Balkans' integration into the EU. Russia will seek to diversify alliances, cooperating with both mainstream pragmatists and radicals calling for a turn away from the West.

Part V Global and Regional Security Mechanisms, Ch.54 The European Union

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanopoulos Eva
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Global Security ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

This chapter explores the European Union’s relationship and contribution to the international law of global security through the lens of ‘ambivalence’. The reasons for this approach are threefold. First, that relationship oscillates between symbiosis and friction. On the one hand, the European Union (EU) has been gradually integrated into the global security architecture. On the other hand, the EU, as a power bloc and ‘autonomous’ legal community, also provides a source of conflict with, disassociation from, or destabilization of, global security arrangements. Second, the interaction between EU law and global security law, as well as the substantive contribution of the EU to the law of global security, produces mixed results. Finally, the ambivalence of the EU as a ‘global security provider’ has also explanatory value when it comes to contemporary developments and challenges, particularly as they emerge from the EU’s response to the increased ‘questioning’ of the European project and the global liberal order more generally, and that cut across several aspects of global security.

Is pan-European security possible?

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Lev Klepatsky
Keyword(s):  
Economic Performance ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
European Security ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Rules And Principles ◽  
Eu Policies ◽  
Ukrainian Crisis ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Eu

The article analyses the EU approach towards pan-European security, the substance that was eroded by the Brussels’ activities. The EU policy resulted into degradation the pan-European security architecture. It became a hostage of the trans-Atlantic solidarity. One of the main aims of transforming European economic communities into the EU was to establish itself as a hegemon in Europe and to reorganize the European sphere on its own rules and principles. Political expedience became superior over economic performance in the EU policies. The EU claimed to represent the whole Europe though not all the European states were its members. Due to the EU and NATO activities the OSCE turned into a minor organization unable to address the challenges of pan-European security. The EU policy has led to creation of new conflicts and division lines in Europe. The EU-Russian relations are considered in the context of pan-European security. The mechanisms for dialogue and cooperation in various fields, including security, are broken. The EU is pursuing the policy of pushing Russia out of Europe. The Ukrainian crisis is an artificial product of the EU. The concept of pan-European security needs critical review and rethinking the role of Russia.

Unpacking the Civilian Dimension of EU Security and Defence

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-83
Author(s):  
Carolyn Moser
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
International Security ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Legal Arguments ◽  
The Eu

This chapter introduces the policy context (international security architecture) and the policy area (EU foreign affairs, security, and defence) of civilian CSDP, and moreover provides an in-depth study of the policy tool of EU peacebuilding (civilian crisis management). The chapter explores in particular the delegation dynamics at work, which have produced the distinctive legal, institutional, and operational environment of the CFSP and CSDP. The analysis demonstrates that civilian CSDP is intergovernmental in conception, but Europeanized through practice. Next to unravelling the idiosyncratic governance features of civilian CSDP, the chapter provides a detailed overview of the main actors in EU civilian crisis management. Moreover, peacebuilding activities are demarcated from other external activities of the EU (ie development and AFSJ activities). The chapter closes with legal arguments and pragmatic considerations that highlight the importance of accountability in EU civilian crisis management.

scholarly journals The Intermarium in Ukrainian and Polish Foreign Policy Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Oleksii Polegkyi
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Security Dilemma ◽  
Polish Foreign ◽  
The Eu

The ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict, crises in the European Union (EU), and armed conflicts in the EU neighbourhood have influenced the prospects of future development in eastern and central Europe. A search for new security architecture on the margins of the EU and regional collaborations that prevail across formal EU borders have forced national elites in Poland and Ukraine to redefine their efforts regarding regional and security co-operation. Rationales for joining an Intermarium (a regional, transnational project involving successor states of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth countries) are based on the perception of a threat coming from Russia. This article analyzes the Intermarium concept, first, from the perspective of “geopolitical imaginary” with emphasis on periphery-centre relations and, second, in the light of regional “security dilemma” as it appears in attempt of “smaller” states to counteract Russian threats.

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