The EU can do little to achieve its policy objectives in its Eastern neighborhood without facing the issue of secessionist conflicts. This paper deals with EU policy towards Georgia and the secessionist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. It discusses the reasons for and constraints on EU...

Since the end of the cold war until 2004, Europe and America's strategic outlooks towards the European neighborhood ran largely in parallel. Washington's foreign policy mantra was that of a Europe 'whole and free', where the dividing lines inherited from the cold war were to dissolve through the...

This paper is the first in a series that will investigate normative foreign policy and forms part of a new project intended to explore fundamental aspects of foreign policy at the global level. Subsequent papers in the series will apply the conceptual framework developed in this paper to five...

This is the second in a series of papers from a new project entitled quot;Who is a normative foreign policy actor? The European Union and its Global Partnersquot;. The first paper - entitled Profiling Normative Foreign Policy: The European Union and its Global Partners, by Nathalie Tocci, CEPS...