Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Raul Gulmammadov Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 64 ISBN: 9783847341116
Описание
The work conceptualises EU actorness, external governance and conditionality, and evaluating effectiveness of EU actorness in exerting influence on non-member states, as well as in conflict management. For a comprehensive discussion of the topic the book considers the effectiveness of EU actorness on political, economic and social reforms in Azerbaijan as a case study. The second case study will evaluate whether the EU can be an effective conflict resolution actor in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict of over Nagorno-Karabakh. The topic actually has drawn increased attention since 2004 when Azerbaijan was included into the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), and again since 2006 when Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline started to operate. Since Azerbaijan participates in diversification of the EU’s energy supplies bypassing Russia, it has become a strategic country for the Union. As the EU is interested in securing its energy supplies and having stable neighbours around, it would be...