Interview with Petras Au?trevi?ius, Member of the European Parliament Chair of the European Ukraine Group in the European Parliament Can the European Union as an organisation be a successful mediator in current conflicts around the globe? What can be priority regions for such a mediation? The European Union’s ambition to be a real global player…
The article is focused on the role of the EU in resolving crisis around the Iranian nuclear programme. It covers the period starting from 2003, when the Iranian nuclear programme was revealed, and is divided into five stages of the involvement of European states in the Iranian crisis resolution. The fifth stage is still in…
The goal of this article is to reflect on the prospect of Azerbaijan as an Eastern Partnership state of joining the EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) peace missions and operations. In researching the topic, the paper focuses on the analysis of Azerbaijan’s Law on Participation in Peace Operations, National Security Concept, and Military…
In this paper, efforts deployed by the EU to reform the police in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ukraine, as part of a broader peacekeeping and peacebuilding strategy, are analysed from a critical and comparative perspective. It is argued that the EU was able to influence the policymaking process because of a positive conditionality policy and…
In this article the author elaborates upon possible “hybrid peace” and the EU’s new perspectives in resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine in the framework of the Common Security and Defence Policy. The conflict resolution will hardly follow the classical and predetermined approach of peaceful settlement, such as the package of the Minsk Agreements I…
Threats to the EU from the conflicts in its southern neighbourhood do not let it keep aloof. EU peace efforts in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are one of the key instances of the European peacekeeping activities in the Middle East. The article aims at analysing actions the EU has taken on political (negotiation process and mediation)…
