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- Title
The European Union's Transformative Power in the Context of Regionalizing the New Eastern Europe and South Caucasus.
- Authors
STRÎMBOVSCHI, SABINA
- Abstract
The EU regional policy towards six former Soviet republics has been developed through the Eastern Partnership program. These countries are differentiated by their geographical location and are classified into two distinct sub-regions: (1) the New Eastern Europe: The Republic of Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine, and (2) the South Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. These sub-regions are caught between two models of regionalization, being required to choose either democracy and a market economy' or autocracy and a centralized economy. This article approaches the EU’s transformative power in Europeanizing its neighbors. Since Europeanization may increase regionalization, the author resorts to Michael Emerson’s concept of the transformative regionalism. Therefore, if the EU seeks to become a successful global actor, then it needs to regionalize its vicinities.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Union; SOUTH Caucasus politics &; government; MOLDOVAN politics &; government; EUROPEANIZATION; ASSIMILATION (Sociology); ECONOMICS
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2017, Vol 26, p21
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article