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European Foreign Affairs Review EUROPEAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS REVIEW Law & Business AUSTIN BOSTON CHICAGO NEW YORK THE NETHERLANDS Published by: Sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by: Kluwer Law International Aspen Publishers, Inc. P.O. Box 316 7201 McKinney Circle 2400 AH Alphen aan den Rijn Frederick, MD 21704 The Netherlands USA In all other countries sold and distributed by: Turpin Distribution Services Stratton Business Park Pegasus Drive Biggleswade Bedfordshire SG18 8TQ United Kingdom ISSN 1384-6299 © 2009 Kluwer Law International BV 2010 (4 issues): Institutional: USD465.00 / EUR349.00 / GBP256.00 (print). Private: USD122.00 / EUR117.00 / GBP73.00 (print). (2009) 14 EFA Rev. should be used to cite this volume. This journal is available online at www.kluwerlaw.com. Sample copies and other information are available at www.kluwerlaw.com. For further information, please contact our sales department at +31 (0) 172 641562 or at [email protected]. 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Weiler Phone: +1 514 343-6111 # 2661 (New York University School of Law) Fax: +1 514 343-7508 Prof. Dr Wolfgang Wessels Email: [email protected] (University of Cologne) European Foreign Affairs Review 14: 457–477, 2009. © 2009 Kluwer Law International BV. EU and the Eastern Neighbourhood: Reluctant Involvement in Confl ict Resolution NICU POPESCU* Abstract. The article deals with the European Union (EU) policy toward the post-Soviet secessionist confl icts in Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh. The article argues that, in order to understand the EU as a crisis management actor, one has to study not just the patterns of EU intervention in confl ict resolution and the impact of its actions but also EU decision not to intervene. These have a huge explanatory potential for the understanding of the EU as a foreign policy actor. Thus the article analyses in detail not just what the EU does vis-à-vis the post-Soviet secessionist confl icts but also what it failed to do. It analyses EU decisions to appoint special envoys, send civilian crisis management operations and offer assistance to the confl ict zones, but also draws lessons from EU’s refusal to consider the deployment of peacekeepers or the avoidance of confl ict resolution strategies, which might upset Russia. The article concludes that EU intervention in confl ict resolution is primarily driven by external constraints or opportunities rather than strategic design. When faced with a choice for possible intervention in confl ict settlement, the EU tends to opt for the easier, rather than the necessary, foreign policy measures and tends to work around the hard issues of confl ict resolution. I Introduction European integration was conceived in the 1950s largely as a confl ict resolu- tion exercise. Its means were economic, but the objective was political: to pacify Europe. As integration advanced and the potential for confl icts in Western Europe faded, the European Union’s (EU) concern with confl icts has became increasingly exteriorized. From the Balkans to the Middle East and from the South Caucasus to Western Sahara, the EU is encircled with confl icts that affect European security.1 The EU has little choice but to consider action. As one EU document puts it: ‘In its neighbourhood and beyond, the EU cannot confi ne itself to the economic and political spheres; it also needs to be able to guarantee stability, prevent confl icts and manage crises on its own doorstep.’2 But one can hardly dream of good governance * Nicu Popescu is research fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, London offi ce. He holds a doctorate in International relations from the Central European University in Budapest. The author thanks Compagnia di San Paolo for supporting this research project under the European Foreign and Security Policies Studies grant. 1 European Security Strategy, 2003. 2 European Commission, ‘Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European 458 NICU POPESCU and functioning state institutions in the European neighbourhood when the poorest European states do not control signifi cant parts of their borders, where smuggling and corruption around the confl ict zones fl ourishes, security tensions periodically lead to shoot outs, neighbours such as Russia and Georgia engage in outright war, publics become increasingly radicalized, military escalation is not off the cards, and defence spending growth had been in double digits for most of the last decade. There is little the EU can do in the Eastern neighbourhood without stumbling on the secessionist confl icts in Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno- Karabakh. Contrary to a wide-spread notion, these confl icts are not ‘frozen’. Their settlement is. A better analogy of that of a frozen river: the ice on the surface may be apparently immobile, but, underneath it, currents continue to run.3 It is not surprising that after the launch of the European neighbourhood policy (ENP) in 2003, the EU has deployed an increasingly wide array of foreign policy instruments aimed at infl uencing confl ict resolution patterns in these confl ict areas.
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