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- Title
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE UNITED STATES' STRATEGIC APPROACHES ON THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS: A NEW CLEAVAGE IN THE TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS?
- Authors
Naumescu, Valentin
- Abstract
The essential purpose of this article is to explore and compare the European Union and United States' different perspectives on political, military and economic crisis of the Eastern European periphery, after a series of key events in the region, such as the Vilnius Summit in November 2013, the Euro Maidan Revolution in January-February 2014, and especially the annexation of Crimea in March 2014, followed by secessionist movements in Eastern Ukraine. The idea of international sanctions against a more and more assertive and abusive Russia, though generally agreed by both the United States and the European Union, was accompanied by quite different tones and nuances of the top political discourse in relation to Moscow. Due to its strong economic ties and commercial interests related to Russian market and resources, the European Union's attitude, undoubtedly under the leading influence of Germany, was rather cautious, hesitating and moderate. On the contrary, the United States proposed a firmer response to the Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, reflected in an envisaged NATO pivot to the Eastern border of the Alliance. The finality of this inquiry is to evaluate whether different addresses regarding Ukrainian crisis, in Brussels and Washington, reflect or not a new episode of the post-2003 transatlantic cleavage.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Union; INTERNATIONAL relations research; RUSSIA-Ukraine Conflict, 2014-; INTERNATIONAL sanctions; ANNEXATION (International law)
- Publication
Online Journal Modelling the New Europe, 2014, Issue 11, p90
- ISSN
2247-0514
- Publication type
Article