EU – Armenia Relations: A Model of “Quiet” Coordination?
https://doi.org/10.46272/2587-8476-2018-0-2-37-46
Abstract
The new stage of EU – Armenia relations, open by the signing of CEPA, focuses on the search for new models of integrations that would make compatible the obligations in the EAEU framework with the wish for closer ties with the EU. While for Brussels this step is a symbol of revised eastern politics, for Erevan it underlines the country’s aspirations for multivectorness within existing structural constraints. The analysis provided in this article suggests that the current consensus launches a new model of a ‘silent’ compatibility of existing integration projects on the post-soviet space, when in the context of political crisis between the integration centers the de facto adaptation of opposing vectors is driven by the focused countries. The model is loose enough to be widely used, and it has an ambivalent potential of postponed influence on the multilateral relations on the post-soviet space.
About the Author
I. V. Bolgova
Institute for International Studies, MGIMO-University;
MGIMO-University
Russian Federation
PhD (History), researcher, Center for Post-soviet studies; associate professor, Chair for applied analysis of international issues
Russian Federation
PhD (History), researcher, Center for Post-soviet studies; associate professor, Chair for applied analysis of international issues
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Bolgova I.V. EU – Armenia Relations: A Model of “Quiet” Coordination? Journal of International Analytics. 2018;(2):37-46. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.46272/2587-8476-2018-0-2-37-46
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