{"id":670,"date":"2017-11-29T22:10:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T22:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=670"},"modified":"2018-06-04T12:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:22:24","slug":"seventh-eu-strat-working-paper-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Seventh EU-STRAT Working Paper is out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Working paper \/\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>November\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>2017<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>EU-STRAT&#8217;s\u00a0seventh working paper is out. Click on the\u00a0paper\u00a0title below to download PDF.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Working Paper No.7 (2017):\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/EU-STRAT-Working-Paper-No.7.pdf\"><strong>Assessing Legal and Political Compatibility between the European Union Engagement Strategies and Membership of the Eurasian Economic Union<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Authors:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Rilka Dragneva, Laure Delcour and Laurynas Jonavicius<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-589\" src=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/working_paper7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"332\" \/>One of the challenges to EU\u2019s Eastern Partnership (EaP) policy relates to structuring cooperation with countries<br \/>\nthat have opted for membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), such as Belarus and Armenia, while<br \/>\navoiding the problems faced in the Ukraine crisis of 2013-2014. Acting on its revised European Neighbourhood<br \/>\nPolicy, the EU has sought to develop differentiated and flexible tools of engagement with the EaP countries,<br \/>\nincluding a new type of agreement with Armenia, the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement<br \/>\n(CEPA). Delivering on this agenda, however, requires clarity on the constraints and limits imposed by membership<br \/>\nin the EAEU. The EU has tended to establish such limits by reliance on the technocratic analysis of current<br \/>\nobligations contained in formal legal agreements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Yet, as revealed by the Ukraine crisis, this approach has not necessarily reflected the geopolitical realities in the region and Russia\u2019s view of integration and its compatibility with EU\u2019s policies, in particular. This paper argues that establishing the limits imposed by EAEU membership requires an assessment of the range of legal as well as non-legal levers at play in individual member states in relation to Russia\u2019s integration projects. What matters is how Russia as well as its Eurasian partners play the \u2018integration game\u2019, and the degree to which political elites in Belarus and Armenia can manoeuvre a space for independent engagement with the EU. This is necessary because of the particular nature of the EAEU, defined by a mixture between current and future commitments, problematic institutional boundaries between delegated<br \/>\npowers and members\u2019 commitments, and the prevalence of power relations within a highly asymmetric huband-spoke<br \/>\ncontext. In this context, Russia has a continued ability to interpret the nature of the commitments undertaken and their compatibility with overlapping international agreements, and enforce it using critical interdependencies of the members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We examine how the \u2018compatibility space\u2019 is negotiated by elites in Belarus and Armenia, and elaborate on the case of CEPA as the most recent test to complementarity of integration<br \/>\nengagements in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working paper \/\u00a0November\u00a02017 EU-STRAT&#8217;s\u00a0seventh working paper is out. Click on the\u00a0paper\u00a0title below to download PDF. Working Paper No.7 (2017):\u00a0Assessing Legal and Political Compatibility between the European Union Engagement Strategies and Membership of the Eurasian Economic Union Authors:\u00a0 Rilka Dragneva, Laure Delcour and Laurynas Jonavicius Abstract: One of the challenges to EU\u2019s Eastern Partnership (EaP) policy&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seventh EU-STRAT Working Paper is out!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}