Natolin Senior Research Fellow Dr Andriy TYUSHKA Published an Article in the European Politics and Society (EPS) Journal

Dr Andriy TYUSHKA, Senior Research Fellow in the European Neighbourhood Chair at the College of Europe in Natolin, has just published an article in the European Politics and Society (EPS) journal, focusing on the EU’s shifting relationalities of democracy promotion and protection within its Eastern neighbourhood following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. 

This article enquires into the established and emerging practices of the EU’s differentiated democracy support, focusing on three discernible foreign-political ‘relationalities’: ‘enlargement’, ‘engagement’ and ‘estrangement’ (3Es). Putting relationship at the epicentre of analysis in the EU’s democratization/counter-autocratization dynamics vis-à-vis its Eastern neighbourhood, this article embraces the ‘relationality’ perspective and thereby brings in insights from IR to the hitherto pursued democratization and European studies approaches. 

In so doing, the article compares and contrasts how the ‘values, wallets and walls’, as the three corresponding rationalities of the EU’s democracy promotion and protection through ‘enlargement, engagement and estrangement’, have manifested throughout the past three decades in the EU’s relations, especially with Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia – and to what end so.

The article can be accessed here.

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