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The EU’s Eastern Partnership as International Governance: What Is the Role of the Civil Society?
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Abstract This article analyzes the civil society dimension and pays particular attention to the role of civil society’s organizations within the EU’s Eastern Partnership’s governance and networking processes. The study is based on the EU’s documents’ analysis and the data of qualitative interviews conducted ... view more
This article analyzes the civil society dimension and pays particular attention to the role of civil society’s organizations within the EU’s Eastern Partnership’s governance and networking processes. The study is based on the EU’s documents’ analysis and the data of qualitative interviews conducted between 2011-2014 from the respondents of the EU’s institutions (European Commission, EEAS, EP), member states’ representations in Brussels, and the members of the Eastern Partnership civil society forum created in 2009. The study shows that the representatives of civil society organizations are seeking to be involved and are existent in most of the stages and interactional modes of the EU’s relations with the Eastern Partnership countries, and this process predicts the conditions for the emergence of international governance in the Eastern neighbourhood space. On the other hand, the representatives of CSOs are complaining about not being involved enough in the negotiations deciding over the Association or other kind of agreements between the EU and their (EaP) country.... view less
Keywords
EU; civil society; global governance; non-governmental organization; European institution; neughborhood policy
Classification
European Politics
Method
qualitative empirical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 50-64
Journal
European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities, 3 (2014) 2
Issue topic
Political Analysis
ISSN
2285-4916
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works