{"id":817,"date":"2018-04-19T08:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T08:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=817"},"modified":"2018-06-04T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:21:14","slug":"tenth-eu-strat-working-paper-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Tenth EU-STRAT Working Paper is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Working paper \/\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>April\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>2018<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>EU-STRAT&#8217;s tenth working paper is out. Click on the\u00a0paper\u00a0title below to download PDF.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Working Paper No.10 (2018): <a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/EU-STRAT-Working-Paper-No.10.pdf\">Interdependencies of Eastern Partnership Countries with the EU and Russia: Three Case Studies<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Authors: <\/strong><em>Kamil Ca\u0142us, Laure Delcour, Ildar Gazizullin, Tadeusz Iwa\u0144ski, Marta Jaroszewicz, and Kamil Klysi\u0144ski <\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-786 size-full alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/wp_10_min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"333\" \/>Asymmetric interdependencies with Russia have been identified as a key factor influencing domestic change in response to EU policies in Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries. As argued in the literature, interdependencies can either facilitate or constrain EU-demanded change, depending on whether they are associated with EaP countries\u2019 sensitivity or vulnerability to Russia\u2019s policies. In this paper, we provide a systematic mapping and process-tracing of interdependencies in three EaP countries (Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine) and four key sectors (trade, migration, energy and security). We further explore Russia\u2019s use of interdependencies and attempts at issue-linkage between the above sectors. Finally, we scrutinize domestic elites\u2019 responses to Russia\u2019s strategies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Drawing upon the distinction between sensitivity and vulnerability, we seek in particular to identify the conditions under which Russia\u2019s policies effectively incentivize or disincentivize the political elites in EaP countries to engage with the EU\u2019s and Russia\u2019s policies. We find that Russia\u2019s attempts to link issues (even if to varying degrees across countries and sectors) effectively undermined further integration with the EU in those cases where policy alternatives were too costly for the incumbent elites. By contrast, Russia\u2019s use of nexuses between different policy sectors have facilitated or even supported integration with the EU when the latter offered an affordable alternative to the EaP countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working paper \/\u00a0April\u00a02018 EU-STRAT&#8217;s tenth working paper is out. Click on the\u00a0paper\u00a0title below to download PDF. Working Paper No.10 (2018): Interdependencies of Eastern Partnership Countries with the EU and Russia: Three Case Studies. Authors: Kamil Ca\u0142us, Laure Delcour, Ildar Gazizullin, Tadeusz Iwa\u0144ski, Marta Jaroszewicz, and Kamil Klysi\u0144ski Abstract:\u00a0 Asymmetric interdependencies with Russia have been identified&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=817\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tenth EU-STRAT Working Paper is here!<\/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\/817"}],"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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}