THE EASTERN FRONTIER SECURITY CASE STUDY: ROMANIA-RUSSIA

Ana-Maria Ghimi? ()
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Ana-Maria Ghimi?: National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania

A chapter in EURINT Proceedings 2013, 2013, vol. 1, pp 62-78 from Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Abstract: The EU is among the very few international organizations that can be easily explained by a supra-nationalist approach, in terms of common good principles or transfer of sovereignty. But we cannot exclude the fact that the Council of the EU still has the most important prerogatives in term of security and defence policies (hard politics) or the fact that states still have certain different national interests and preferences regarding specific subjects. In foreign policy and security terms the immediate neighbourhood is of special attention for every rational actor. In the case of the Russian Federation, the EU has proven to be more like an intergovernmental organization, due to the fact that the Europeans have different approaches vis-a-vis their Eastern neighbour. The present paper aims to develop a glibly approach over different policies pursued by Moscow with special attention to Russia’s relationship with Romania, as the latter is a frontier state of the EU bordering Russia’s “near abroad” territories. Further reasons to emphasize this relationship are that Romania is a riparian state in the Black Sea, having the possibility to become energetically independent and having already developed a strategic partnership with Moldova following the European soft power strategy.

Keywords: Romania; Russia; the EU; Black Sea; NATO; energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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