The European Union's 'potential We' between acceptance and contestation: assessing the positioning of six eastern partnership countries*

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Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Alena
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/67678
Resumo: The present contribution analyses the European neighbourhood policy and the Eastern Partnership (EaP), which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2019, from the perspective of social identity theory. It is argued that the evolution of both the European neighbourhood policy and the EaP corresponds to the emergence of a distinct EU identity: its 'potential we', which has been defying the Russian 'significant we' extended to the EaP states. Drawing on the framing analysis of strategic documents and statements, which identifies eight distinct themes, the contribution ascertains three different patterns of EaP states' interaction with the EU: Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine accepting the 'EU's potential we', Armenia holding to the potential we, and Azerbaijan, as well as Belarus, contesting the potential we.
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spelling The European Union's 'potential We' between acceptance and contestation: assessing the positioning of six eastern partnership countries*altercastingEastern partnershipEuropean neighbourhood policyRussiasocial identity theorySocial SciencesThe present contribution analyses the European neighbourhood policy and the Eastern Partnership (EaP), which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2019, from the perspective of social identity theory. It is argued that the evolution of both the European neighbourhood policy and the EaP corresponds to the emergence of a distinct EU identity: its 'potential we', which has been defying the Russian 'significant we' extended to the EaP states. Drawing on the framing analysis of strategic documents and statements, which identifies eight distinct themes, the contribution ascertains three different patterns of EaP states' interaction with the EU: Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine accepting the 'EU's potential we', Armenia holding to the potential we, and Azerbaijan, as well as Belarus, contesting the potential we.This study was conducted at the Research Center in Political Science (CICP) (UIDB/CPO/00758/2020), University of Minho/University of Evora and supported by the Fundacao para a Cencia e Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT) and the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science through national funds. The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and the JCMS editors for their very constructive feedback.WileyUniversidade do MinhoVieira, Alena20212021-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/67678eng0021-98861468-596510.1111/jcms.13069https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcms.13069info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:19:52Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/67678Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:12:54.574834Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The European Union's 'potential We' between acceptance and contestation: assessing the positioning of six eastern partnership countries*
title The European Union's 'potential We' between acceptance and contestation: assessing the positioning of six eastern partnership countries*
spellingShingle The European Union's 'potential We' between acceptance and contestation: assessing the positioning of six eastern partnership countries*
Vieira, Alena
altercasting
Eastern partnership
European neighbourhood policy
Russia
social identity theory
Social Sciences
title_short The European Union's 'potential We' between acceptance and contestation: assessing the positioning of six eastern partnership countries*
title_full The European Union's 'potential We' between acceptance and contestation: assessing the positioning of six eastern partnership countries*
title_fullStr The European Union's 'potential We' between acceptance and contestation: assessing the positioning of six eastern partnership countries*
title_full_unstemmed The European Union's 'potential We' between acceptance and contestation: assessing the positioning of six eastern partnership countries*
title_sort The European Union's 'potential We' between acceptance and contestation: assessing the positioning of six eastern partnership countries*
author Vieira, Alena
author_facet Vieira, Alena
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Vieira, Alena
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv altercasting
Eastern partnership
European neighbourhood policy
Russia
social identity theory
Social Sciences
topic altercasting
Eastern partnership
European neighbourhood policy
Russia
social identity theory
Social Sciences
description The present contribution analyses the European neighbourhood policy and the Eastern Partnership (EaP), which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2019, from the perspective of social identity theory. It is argued that the evolution of both the European neighbourhood policy and the EaP corresponds to the emergence of a distinct EU identity: its 'potential we', which has been defying the Russian 'significant we' extended to the EaP states. Drawing on the framing analysis of strategic documents and statements, which identifies eight distinct themes, the contribution ascertains three different patterns of EaP states' interaction with the EU: Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine accepting the 'EU's potential we', Armenia holding to the potential we, and Azerbaijan, as well as Belarus, contesting the potential we.
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