{"id":784,"date":"2018-03-21T17:49:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T17:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=784"},"modified":"2018-06-04T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:23:33","slug":"eight-eu-strat-working-paper-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Eighth EU-STRAT Working Paper is out!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working paper \/\u00a0March\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>2018<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

EU-STRAT’s eighth working paper is out. Click on the\u00a0paper\u00a0title below to download PDF.<\/p>\n

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Working Paper No.8 (2018):\u00a0How Bilateral, Regional and International Regimes Shape the Extent, Significance and Nature of Interdependencies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Authors:\u00a0<\/strong>
\nRilka Dragneva, Laure Delcour, Marta Jaroszewicz, Szymon Karda\u015b, and Carolina Ungureanu<\/em><\/p>\n

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Abstract:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"In discussing relations between post-Soviet countries, interdependence, and dependence on Russia in particular, is often portrayed as a natural inevitability. What this ignores, however, is that interdependence can be created and perpetuated by policy itself. It is the outcome of a political game where a range of interests is involved, resulting in a set of governance arrangements or regimes. Understanding this dynamic has important implications for the effectiveness of the European Union\u2019s engagement in the region.<\/p>\n

This paper examines what regimes interdependence between Russia and its neighbours (Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine) are embedded in, but also how these arrangements affect interdependence in their own right. The focus here is on formal international agreements between these countries, but also on less institutionalized interactions and transactional dealings governing relations across four sectors of notable interdependence: trade, migration, energy and security. The sectoral analysis is based on a number of key theoretical propositions we formulate in the beginning of the paper about how the nature and characteristics of governing regimes affect interdependence or that is, the countries\u2019 sensitivity and vulnerability to Russia\u2019s actions as per Keohane and Nye\u2019s framework. Importantly, we examine regimes not in isolation but note that certain subject matters are often regulated by a set of overlapping bilateral, regional or international agreements. Similarly, we note that interdependence is affected by interactions between regimes across sectors, reflecting a propensity for issue linkage.<\/p>\n

We find that, despite variations in nature and design, formal regimes developed post-USSR provide few constraints on Russia\u2019s unilateral actions and have thus served to perpetuate the neighbours\u2019 sensitivity. Overlaps with regional frameworks have been important particularly with regard to Belarus, but have produced similar effects. International regimes, such as the World Trade Organization and international arbitration, have the potential to induce a rule-based dynamics. However, the reduction of vulnerability is ultimately conditional on the progress of domestic reform. The implications for the European Union, which relies on sophisticated, rule-based regimes in marked contrast with Russia\u2019s reliance on weak and non-transparent arrangements, are many and deserve further exploration. They all, however, point to the argument that the European Union should offer not only rule-dense regimes to the Eastern partners, but frameworks offering actual policy alternatives and allowing the prioritization of key domestic reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working paper \/\u00a0March\u00a02018 EU-STRAT’s eighth working paper is out. Click on the\u00a0paper\u00a0title below to download PDF. Working Paper No.8 (2018):\u00a0How Bilateral, Regional and International Regimes Shape the Extent, Significance and Nature of Interdependencies Authors:\u00a0 Rilka Dragneva, Laure Delcour, Marta Jaroszewicz, Szymon Karda\u015b, and Carolina Ungureanu Abstract: In discussing relations between post-Soviet countries, interdependence, and dependence…Continue reading Eighth 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\/784"}],"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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}