Change and Continuity in the European Neighbourhood Policy: The Ukraine Crisis as a Critical Juncture
Change and Continuity in the European Neighbourhood Policy: The Ukraine Crisis as a Critical Juncture
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欧洲睦邻政策的变化与连续性：乌克兰危机是一个紧要关头
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2019
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Nikki Ikani
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作者：
Nikki Ikani
摘要 乌克兰危机对欧盟的周边政策提出了严峻的地缘政治挑战。这是因为在危机过程中，俄罗斯利用经济、信息乃至军事手段公开挑战欧盟在该地区的经济和政治一体化举措。因此，这场危机及其升级对整个欧盟的安全、贸易、能源安全和区域合作领域产生了影响。危机发生后，为了应对这些挑战，各主要参与者宣布与之前的欧盟政策进行明确的口头决裂。然而，针对这些事件的言论和公开的改革雄心并未与实际政策目标或政策工具的重大修改相匹配。本文的核心问题是如何解释乌克兰危机后欧洲睦邻政策（ENP）的变化。为了提供答案，本文将以历史制度主义为基础，探讨两个关键的历史制度主义见解如何提高我们对乌克兰危机后对 ENP 政策变化的理解：(i) ENP 制度的制度“效果”和可塑性，以及 (ii) 暂时的偶然性。为此，本文对当前有关 ENP 政策变化的文献中的两种倾向提出了质疑。首先，缺乏对政策变化这一概念的分析，在整个文献中很少对政策变化进行定义或概念化。其次，普遍的假设是，由于普遍存在政策惯性，乌克兰危机后的 ENP 改革几乎没有发生任何变化，这一点不应感到惊讶。有人认为，这过于简单化了政策连续性和政策变化。本文通过特别关注变革之前的决策过程，旨在为欧盟外交政策变革问题提供新的视角。
ABSTRACT The Ukraine crisis presented a severe geopolitical challenge to European Union (EU) policies in the neighbourhood. This is because during the course of the crisis, Russia openly challenged the EU’s economic and political integration initiatives in the region using economic, informational and eventually military means. As such, the crisis and its escalation has had ramifications across the EU in the fields of security, trade, energy security and regional cooperation. In the wake of the crisis, a clear rhetorical break with previous EU policy was announced by various key actors to respond to these challenges. Yet both the rhetoric and declared ambition for reform in response to the events is not matched by a major revision of actual policy objectives or policy tools. The question at the core of this article is how to explain the changes made to the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) following the Ukraine crisis. In order to provide an answer this article will build on historical institutionalism, exploring how two key historical institutionalist insights improve our understanding of the policy changes made to the ENP after the Ukraine crisis: (i) the institutional ‘effects’ and plasticity of the ENP institutions and (ii) temporal contingency. In doing so, this article takes issue with two tendencies in the current literature on policy change in the ENP. First, the lack of analytical engagement with the very notion of policy change, which throughout the literature is rarely defined or conceptualized. Second, the prevailing assumption that one should not be surprised that in the case of ENP reform after the Ukraine crisis there has been little change, due to the prevalence of policy inertia. It is argued that this oversimplifies both policy continuity and policy change. By paying particular attention to the decision-making process preceding change, this article thus aims to shed new light on the issue of EU foreign policy change.
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2017
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Delcour L;Wolczuk K
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Wolczuk K
欧盟和乌克兰
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1.2
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MacFarlane N
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MacFarlane N
欧盟新成员国的影响：以波兰和东部伙伴关系为例
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1.4
作者：
Copsey N
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Copsey N