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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459872903321

Autore

Popescu Nicu

Titolo

EU foreign policy and post-Soviet conflicts : stealth intervention / / Nicu Popescu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-85189-5

1-283-04195-2

9786613041951

0-203-83478-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in European politics ; ; 71

Disciplina

327.0917124

341.242/2

Soggetti

Conflict management - Government policy - European Union countries

Electronic books.

European Union countries Foreign relations Former Soviet republics

Former Soviet republics Foreign relations European Union countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 EU foreign policy and conflict management; 3 The EU's piecemeal involvement in Transnistria; 4 The EU's reluctant engagement in Abkhazia and South Ossetia; 5 The EU's non- involvement in Nagorno- Karabakh; 6 Conclusions: The EU's involvement and reluctance; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The European Union is still emerging as a fully fledged foreign policy actor. The vagaries of this process are clearly visible, yet insufficiently explained in the EU policies towards the post-Soviet space. EU Foreign Policy and Post-Soviet Conflicts examines EU intervention and non-intervention in conflict resolution, with a specific focus on the EU's role in the post-soviet conflicts in the South Caucasus and Moldova: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria. It explains how EU foreign policy affected these conflicts, but more importantly what EU interven