Après 1989, les pays d’Europe centrale et orientale ont tous redéfini les priorités de leur politique étrangère, les orientant vers l’Ouest. Que sont devenues les relations avec les pays de l’ancien bloc soviétique ? Cet article est consacré à la politique de la République...

This article explores „framing“ as a so far neglected dimension of the EU’s actorness. The first part analyses the EU’s actorness in general and tries to define the basic features of the Union’s actorness. The second section is dedicated to the notion of framing, as applied in the...

The paper explores the dominant interpretations of the EU–Russian energy relations by identifying three dominant concepts around which these interpretations revolve: (1) integration, (2) liberalization, and (3) diversification. Building on a detailed discourse analysis of 97 textual units...

Recently, a new buzz word has appeared in official speeches in the field of the European UnionÕs external relations: ÒSoft powerÓ. The notion was first coined for American foreign policy and is now at the heart of EU foreign policy discourses, especially the European Neighbourhood Policy...

The article develops the thesis that the EU Commission borrowed some features from the open method of coordination (OMC) in order to implement the 1997 reform of the fifth EU enlargement policy. Contrary to the thesis of enlargement conceived as a unilateral policy, I use tools of historical and...