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Europeanization Subverted? The EU’s Promotion of Good Governance and the Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus

Cover: Working Paper KFG. The Transformative Power of Europe

Cover: Working Paper KFG. The Transformative Power of Europe

Tanja A. Börzel, Yasemin Pamuk – 2011

In order to foster peace, stability and prosperity in its near abroad, the European Union has invoked the European Neighbourhood Policy that seeks to transform the domestic structures of the Newly Independent States in the post-Soviet space thus building a “ring of friends” that share European norms and principles of democracy, rule of the law, market economy, and good governance. Empirical evidence, however, suggests that the EU’s capacity to hit across its borders and to realize its reform agenda seems limited. Moreover, most neighborhood countries appear to be stuck in transition and suffer from serious problems of both weak state capacity and defect democracy. Hence, EU efforts may also bear the danger of unintended and negative effects on the domestic structures of states, as its policies and institutions do not only empower liberal reform coalitions, to the extent that they exist in the first place, but can also bolster the power of incumbent authoritarian and corrupt elites. This paper intends to capture this “dark side of Europeanization” (Schimmelfennig 2007). It thus conceptualizes ENP as a political opportunity structure that provides opportunities and constraints to both supporters and opponents of the European Union’s reform agenda. Which of the two ultimately get empowered depends not only on the EU’s capacity to push for reforms but also on the pull of domestic actors.

Titel
Europeanization Subverted? The EU’s Promotion of Good Governance and the Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus
Verlag
Freie Univ. Berlin, Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"
Ort
Berlin
Schlagwörter
Europa, Good Governance, Teilprojekt B2
Datum
2011-04
Kennung
ISSN 1868-6834 (Print) ISSN 1868-7601 (Online)
Erschienen in
KFG Working Paper No. 26, Research College (Kolleg-Forschergruppe) "The Transformative Power of Europe", Berlin.
Sprache
eng
Art
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