The EU's Neighbourhood Policy towards the South Caucasus - Expanding the European Security Community

This book addresses the potential and limitations of the European Union Neighbourhood Policy in sustaining the expansion of the European security community towards the South Caucasus. The Caucasus' complex regional security dynamics are a hard test for regional security community building and showcase both the challenges of security provision through liberal reforms and integration and of the interaction between security communities and balance of power. The author begins by conceptualizing security community expansion and then considers the ENP through this perspective, before moving on to individual case studies on Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The book will appeal to both scholars and practitioners interested in European security, the European Union external action, and the post-Soviet space.

List of contents

Introduction.- Chapter 1. European Security Community expansion.- Chapter 2. The Neighbourhood Policy and the expansion of the European Security Community.- Chapter 3. Competing security logics in the South Caucasus.- Chapter 4. Breaking isolation: the Armenian choice for Europe?.- Chapter 5. Azerbaijan's balancing act: what role for the EU?.- Chapter 6. Georgian options for Euro-Atlantic integration.- Conclusions.

About the author

Licínia Simão is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Coimbra and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, Portugal. Her research interests include foreign policy analysis and security studies, European Union external action, and the former-Soviet space.

Summary

Provides an updated and innovative approach to the EU’s role as a security actor
Contributes to the mainly empirically-driven literature on the South Caucasus
Argues that security is a central element in the region’s dynamics in the post-Cold War context

Product details

• Authors: Licínia Simão
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319881072
• ISBN: 978-3-31-988107-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 15 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 369 g
• Illustrations: XXI, 256 p. 1 illus. in color.
• Series: The European Union in International Affairs
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Internationale Beziehungen, Europa, B, Europe, European Politics, Political Science, International Relations, European Union, Politics & government, auseinandersetzen, Political Science and International Studies, EU (European Union), International Security Studies, Security, International, European Union Politics, Europe—Politics and government, nation-building in the South Caucasus, security logics in the South Caucasus