European Security Identity and the Southern Caucasus: the Role of the EU, the US and Russia

Información del proyecto

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: INTAS2004-79-7206

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de inicio 1 Mayo 2005

Fecha de finalización 30 Abril 2007

Financiado con arreglo a

• International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993-

Coste total

Sin datos

Aportación de la UE

€ 80 000,00

Coordinado por

Faculty of Political Science, University Of Catania
Italy

Objetivo

European Security Identity and the Southern Caucasus: the Role of the EU, the US and Russia The project is aimed at exploring the nexus between the European Security identity and the South Caucasus. In the European area, so far the EU has used the perspective of its enlargement and the principle of conditionality attached to it for prospective members as a foreign policy tool to project security and stability, and to deal with the multidimensional security challenges present at its borders and that inevitably affect the EU itself. The latest enlargement, though, has stretched to the limit the capabilities of the EU to use the enlargement tool, indicating the need for the EU to adopt new policy approaches towards its neighboring countries.. The approach chosen with the adoption of the European Neighborhood Policy has been based on the attempt to build security and strengthen stability in what is called Wider Europe and to socialize the partner countries in order to produce common orientation towards problems and values, reducing security culture differences The insertion of the South Caucasus within the reach of European Security has strictly linked the process of re-shaping the security identity of this area, both at level of instruments and principles, to the stability and security of the whole European continent. This interdependence will be analyzed in light of the number of international actors involved in the South Caucasus– national and supranational - that are relevant in the security arrangement of European security. In the security field and in conflict resolution the EU has privileged a non-military approach and, in what could seem a division of roles with the US, has mostly assumed the burden of participating in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the conflict zones. The launch of the European Neighborhood Policy initiative and its extension to Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan even more accentuated the mismatch between the project of wider European security and the lack of a security identity of the Caucasus. In this context, the EU is facing the challenge of how to project security and stability in the region in the framework of an “effective multilateral system’, of a “stronger international society, well functioning international institutions and a rule-based international order’ (Solana, European Security strategy, 2003) . Within the frame of the project information and materials on security policy of the EU, US and Russia and in particular in relation to the South Caucasus will be collected, examined and relevant trends will be discerned demonstrating approach of the actors to the security of the South Caucasus. In the course of discerning patterns in the decision-making of the EU, Russia, the US and the South Caucasian States content analysis will be used. The project will utilize multidisciplinary approach in pursuing the research goals.

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Programa(s)

• IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993-

Tema(s)

• Transforming Societies 2004 - Thematic Call - Transforming Societies - East and West

Convocatoria de propuestas

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Régimen de financiación

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Coordinador

Faculty of Political Science, University Of Catania

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Via Vittorio Emanuele 49 ; 95131 Catania ; Italia
• Coste total: Sin datos

Participantes (3)

Institute

Georgia

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Kikodze Str. 3 ; 0107 Tbilisi
• Coste total: Sin datos

University

Austria

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Churfurststra?e 1 ; A-5020 Salzburg
• Coste total: Sin datos

University

Azerbaiyán

• Aportación de la UE: Sin datos
• Dirección: Khalilova 23 ; 1445 Baku
• Coste total: Sin datos