Escaping Great Power Politics

A Securitised Eastern Partnership

18 May 2020

Aliaksei Kazharski

Visegrad Insight Fellow

What could happen to the European Union’s Eastern neighbourhood in the decade to come? Will it be abandoned and forgotten if Europe strikes a new deal with Russia, dividing up the spheres of influence? Or could the societies of the six post-Soviet Eastern Partnership states awaken and bring forth radical political and economic reform with the help of the EU?

In May 2019 the Eastern Partnership, the European Union’s most ambitious neighbourhood policy project, celebrated its tenth anniversary.

Several months later, Visegrad Insight assembled a team of experts from the six EaP countries who met in Warsaw, Tbilisi and Prague to develop Eastern European Futures, four Eastern Partnership scenarios for the next decade.

Shared neighbourhood

The EaP story started when the EU’s ‘big bang’ enlargements in 2004 and 2007 shifted the borders of the European project to the East creating a new zone of “shared neighbourhood” between the Union and Russia. These post-Soviet countries presented the EU with both opportunities and challenges.

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Aliaksei Kazharski

Visegrad Insight Fellow

Visegrad Insight Fellow. Researcher at the Institute of European Studies and International Relations of the Comenius University in Bratislava and a lecturer at the Department of Security Studies of Charles University in Prague

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