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The geopoliticisation of the EU’s eastern Partnership

Cadier, David (2019) The geopoliticisation of the EU’s eastern Partnership. Geopolitics, 24 (1). pp. 71-99. ISSN 1465-0045

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Identification Number: 10.1080/14650045.2018.1477754

Abstract

Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis in 2014, the idea that the EU and Russia are engaged in a geopolitical contest over their common neighbourhood and that the Eastern Partnership (EaP) is Brussels’ instrument in this context appears ‘common sense’. Yet, the reality of the EaP as a policy programme hardly corresponds to such representation, whether in its original purpose, actual content or effects on the ground. To unpack this discrepancy, this article presents a genealogy of what is conceptualised here as the geopoliticisation of the EaP, a notion set forth to designate the discursive construction of an issue as a geopolitical problem. While Russia’s actions in Ukraine certainly contributed to deepen and reinforce this dynamic, the article shows that the geopoliticisation of the EaP was neither merely exogenous nor simply reactive. It was also carried forward from within the European policy community by a discourse coalition which, based on its own political subjectivities and policy agenda, came to frame the EaP as an endeavour aimed at ‘winning over’ countries of the Eastern neighbourhood and ‘rolling back’ Russia’s influence.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group
Divisions: IGA: LSE IDEAS
International Relations
Subjects: J Political Science > JZ International relations
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Date Deposited: 20 Mar 2019 14:54
Last Modified: 12 Dec 2024 01:42
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/100286

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