Pardo Sierra, Oscar (2011)
Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham.
The European Union (EU) has set itself ambitious objectives in order to transform its neighbourhood. It aims to induce domestic reforms in order to promote democracy, good governance and prosperity. Theoretical-oriented empirical analyses on the impact of the EU’s attempts to trigger institutional, regulatory and normative changes in domestic policies remain scarce. It is necessary to increase our understanding of the EU’s potential, limitations, and the conditions under which it may have an impact. This thesis contributes to closing this empirical and theoretical gap by examining the impact of the EU on Georgia, a country included in the Eastern dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). This evaluation is derived from original empirical research of four different modes of EU governance in the context of the ENP: Governance by conditionality (access to the single market regarding economic issues); intergovernmental governance (cooperation in foreign and security policies); external governance (energy security); and cooperative governance (Security Sector Reform). This thesis suggests that we can explain the responses to EU policies in neighbouring countries if we use a synthetic ideational/rationalist analytical framework which takes into account additional variables in the EU–neighbour relations in the domestic and regional context.
|Type of Work:||Ph.D. thesis.|
|Supervisor(s):||Menon, Anand and Moore, Cerwyn|
|School/Faculty:||Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Social Sciences|
|Department:||Department of Political Science and International Studies, School of Government and Society|
|Subjects:||HC Economic History and Conditions|
JA Political science (General)
JS Local government Municipal government
JN Political institutions (Europe)
|Institution:||University of Birmingham|
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