European integration in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine: assessing the role and strategies of the European Union in the Eastern Neighbours compared with the Western Balkans

Diplôme Master European integration in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine: assessing the role and strategies of the European Union in the Eastern Neighbours compared with the Western Balkans eng 2022 author Ballieu Coralie Axelle Angélique 936684 director Krakovsky Roman 811574 91 <p>This master’s thesis evaluates the extent of European integration in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine (Eastern neighbours). The aim is to determine whether economic integration is more advanced than legal and value-based integration and if the commonly agreed assumption that EU candidacy is the most powerful tool at the disposal of the EU to foster European integration is valid in the case of the Eastern neighbours. To do so, we analyse the Eastern neighbours through the External Incentive Model (EIM), that explained the successful European integration of Central and Eastern Europe in 2004, and systematically compare the results with these of the Western Balkans, who are themselves on the European integration path as well as (potential-)candidate to the EU. Moreover, we tackle the limit of the model and of the EU’s European integration strategy in the Eastern neighbours and the Western Balkans, by giving an account of the changing geopolitical context, mostly the role of Russia, China and Turkey, and their influence.</p> <p></p> Dewey 320 Master Russie-Europe médiane Mémoires électroniques 118 24 Global Studies Institute 0DJ false 750382d1-88f6-4bb3-b2b7-8f6ecd936320 Master thesis Public Ballieu.pdf 1206266 application/pdf OA OTHER openAccess Centres et instituts / Global Studies Institute

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