June 21

4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

2.A.03

Sühal Şemşit

Abstract: The deepening of European Union integration led to the "externalities of EU integration" (Lavenex and Ucarer, 2002) which created the debates and research on EU external governance mechanisms. The concept of external governance analyses the expansion of EU rules towards third countries beyond EU borders. The increasing interdependence between the EU and the third countries especially with regard to soft security issues such as irregular migration creates the need for a more innovative and efficient external governance model adapting to rapid changes and transformations both in the targeted regions in EU foreign policy and in the issues creating interdependency (Lavenex and Schimmelfennig, 2009). ENP offering the neighbouring regions deeper integration without full membership is a significant part of EU external governance mechanism which could create a model for deepening relations with other countries. However ENP has been in times of crisis and in need for an urgent and deep revision due to the vastly changing political landscape in the neighbouring regions of the EU and lack of rule adoption especially in political conditionality matters. In a period of the dilemma between norm-based and interest-based policies in EU external relations, this paper aims to analyse the lessons driven from the inadequate conditionality mechanism resulting with inadequate rule adoption and evaluate the sustainability of the newly developed approach. These lessons and the evaluations will be reflected on the EU's external governance mechanisms towards other third countries to be presented in an external governance model of concentric circles in this paper.

Disciplines: Political Science
Economics

Substantive Tags: Eastern Europe, Foreign Policy/Relations, European Union and Integration, International/Global Relations, Regionalism

Research Networks: None of the Above

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