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EU options on Russia and the Eastern partners: "cooperative confrontation" as the guiding principle beyond the Riga Summit

"Moscow's hegemonic stance on the post-Soviet space and its provocations in Ukraine force the European Union to find strategic clarity in its eastern neighbourhood. Often in the midst of discontinuous internal reform processes, the countries to the Union's east find themselves hanging between a vague "wider Europe" proposal from Brussels and Moscow's increasingly forceful idea of a "wider Russia". At the May 2015 Riga Summit the EU heads of state and government will meet with their counterparts from the Eastern Partnership, including the new associates Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine. The EU should grant these countries political guarantees, material assistance and European perspectives. But the European Union can only develop bilateral and plurilateral European perspectives if it faces up to the Russian factor and realigns its relations with Moscow on the Eastern Policy triangle of stability, cooperation and norm-driven transformation."(Autorenreferat)

EU options on Russia and the Eastern partners: 
"cooperative confrontation" as the guiding principle beyond the Riga Summit

EU options on Russia and the Eastern partners: "cooperative confrontation" as the guiding principle beyond the Riga Summit | Urheber*in: Lang, Kai-Olaf; Lippert, Barbara

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ISSN
1861-1761
Extent
Seite(n): 7
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
SWP Comment (32/2015)

Subject
Internationale Beziehungen
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Russland
Weißrussland
EU
Armenien
Aserbaidschan
bilaterale Beziehungen
Georgien
Nachbarschaftspolitik
Ukraine
Ostpolitik
Republik Moldau
internationale Beziehungen
Osteuropa

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Lang, Kai-Olaf
Lippert, Barbara
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
(where)
Deutschland, Berlin
(when)
2015

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-432497
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Object type

  • Stellungnahme

Associated

  • Lang, Kai-Olaf
  • Lippert, Barbara
  • Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit

Time of origin

  • 2015

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