Resilience and the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood Countries : From Theoretical Concepts to a Normative Agenda

Resilience has emerged as a key concept in EU foreign policy. The policy debate around this concept has been vigorous, but theoretical attempts to develop the concept are few. Covering fields of strategical importance, such as economic governance; growth and sustainable development; energy, environment and climate action; education, the labour market, and foreign affairs, this book is one of the first attempts to profoundly theorise the concept of ‘resilience’ in international relations by looking at several policy areas and countries. Faced with multiple crises (the economic crisis, the Brexit referendum, the refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, geopolitics such as events in the Ukraine), and challenges with its integration process, the European Union needs to become not only more intelligent, more inclusive and more sustainable, but also more resilient and more capable of reacting to different internal and external shocks. This book integrates a systemic assessment of the regions’ specific shocks and risks in relation to internal vulnerabilities (i.e. structural economic, social, institutional and political fragility) and to their long and medium-term impact on the stability, security and sustainable development in the region. Front Matter ....Pages i-xlii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Resilience and the Eastern Partnership—What Relevance for Policies? (Gabriela Carmen Pascariu, Gilles Rouet)....Pages 3-24 Increasingly Geopolitical: EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood in the Age of Multiple Crises (Cristian Nitoiu)....Pages 25-47 Public Administration and Governance in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood Countries: Comparative Approach and Relevance for the European Neighbourhood Policy Effectiveness (Mihaela Onofrei, Florin Oprea)....Pages 49-87 The Economic Dynamics of the Eastern Partnership Countries: Between Development Gaps and Internal Fragilities (Oana-Ramona Socoliuc, Liviu-George Maha)....Pages 89-135 Front Matter ....Pages 137-137 (In)securitising the Eastern Neighbourhood. The European Union Eastern Partnership’s Normative Dilemma: Resilience Versus Principled Pragmatism (Grzegorz Pożarlik)....Pages 139-157 The EU’s Actorness in the Eastern Neighbourhood (Teodor Lucian Moga, Lucian-Dumitru Dîrdală)....Pages 159-191 Resilience of the EU and Leverage of the European Neighbourhood Policy: Good News and Bad News (Michael Bolle)....Pages 193-217 Geostrategic Interests of the EU and Their Implementation on the Example of the Ukrainian Crisis (Ivana Slobodnikova, Peter Terem, Radovan Gura)....Pages 219-244 Measuring Hierarchy in the European Union and Eastern Partnership Countries (Yuval Weber)....Pages 245-292 Organisations and Resilience: What Relevance for the Eastern Partnership? (Gilles Rouet, Thierry Côme)....Pages 293-317 Front Matter ....Pages 319-319 Current Methodological Approaches in Economic Resilience Analysis. Empirical Findings in the EaP Countries (Carmen Pintilescu, Daniela Viorică)....Pages 321-348 Borderlines: Economic Resilience on the European Union’s Eastern Periphery (Adrian Healy, Gillian Bristow)....Pages 349-368 Resilience at the EU’s Eastern Borders: A Comparative Analysis of Post-Soviet Countries Through an Institutional Approach (Ramona Țigănașu, Loredana Maria Simionov)....Pages 369-429 The Eastern Partnership and the Idea of Europeanisation Challenged in the Age of Hybrid Challenges (Sergiy Gerasymchuk)....Pages 431-446 Whose Resilience? Resilience and Regime Strength in EU-Azerbaijan Relations (Eske Van Gils)....Pages 447-474 Migration and Resilience in the Eastern European Neighbourhood: Remittances as a Mechanism for Boosting Recovery After Shocks (Cristian Incaltarau, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu)....Pages 475-513 Adaptation, Marketisation or Resilience? Multiculturalism in Local Practices at the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland (Dariusz Wojciech Wojakowski)....Pages 515-539 General Conclusions (Gilles Rouet, Gabriela Carmen Pascariu)....Pages 541-548 Back Matter ....Pages 549-598