{"id":316,"date":"2015-05-06T16:52:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=316"},"modified":"2015-05-07T08:31:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T08:31:17","slug":"prof-korosteleva-publishes-new-policy-paper-on-eu-russia-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2015\/05\/06\/prof-korosteleva-publishes-new-policy-paper-on-eu-russia-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Korosteleva publishes new policy paper on EU-Russia relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Korosteleva has published her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de\/fileadmin\/files\/user_upload\/EZ_PolicyBrief_4_1505_EN.pdf\">policy paper on EU-Russia relations<\/a> in the contested neighbourhood with <strong>Bertelsmann Stiftung<\/strong>, an influential German think tank.<\/p>\n<p>The paper contends that both the EU and Russia\u2019s ambitions for the eastern region have evolved into two <em>competing region-building<\/em> <em>projects<\/em> underpinned by differing strategies, norms, instruments, and actors. Although projecting competing rationalities, the two projects, until recently, had peacefully co-existed, working around conflicting issues of political norms and economic convergence, which were not necessarily seen as insurmountable for furthering regional cooperation. Their subsequent politicisation and securitisation, as a consequence of events in Ukraine, have rendered regional partnership currently <em>incompatible<\/em>, revealing a profound lack of understanding the region by both the EU and Russia; and the EU under-exploited capacity to work co-jointly with the Eurasian Union (and Russia) vis-a-vis the region.\u00a0 This report contends that the EU must make an effort to acknowledge and engage with the above actors in the region, in order to develop cooperative strategies, based on shared interests, international norms and compatible instruments for the advancement of economic and political convergence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Korosteleva has published her policy paper on EU-Russia relations in the contested neighbourhood with Bertelsmann Stiftung, an influential German think tank. The paper contends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2015\/05\/06\/prof-korosteleva-publishes-new-policy-paper-on-eu-russia-relations\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131001,131002],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}