Tobias Schumacher
Biographic Data
| ID | 91679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Schumacher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Schumacher |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUMACHER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Europe, Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9776-8686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond External Incentives: The European Union, Wartime Enlargement and the Candidate Countries in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans
EU external differentiated integration in aviation and trade: What drives Southern neighbours
The Eastern Mediterranean Energy Bonanza: A Piece in the Regional and Global Geopolitical Puzzle, and the Role of the European Union
This article examines current energy-related disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean. It does so by situating them in the context of the Middle East’s broader geopolitical landscape and by showing how global powers’ interests and involvement have become contingent on the international and regional political environments. The latter augmented the intensity of the contestation and helped move identifiable and tangible factors, such as Exclusive Econo…
Going back and forth: European Union resilience-building in Moldova between 2014 and 2020
This article maps out how domestic scope conditions in Moldova have influenced and shaped the emergence of resilience in EU-Moldova relations and the implementation of EU resilience-building during the period 2014–2020. Drawing on scholarly works addressing the ‘resilience turn’ in the study of European foreign policy, this article argues that EU external action towards Moldova post-2014 is marked by (i) a narrow and minimalist conception of resi…
Territorial Conflict, Domestic Crisis, and the Covid‐19 Pandemic in the South Caucasus. Explaining Variegated EU Responses
For the three countries of the South Caucasus region, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, linked to the EU through its European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the Eastern Partnership (EaP) and a diverse set of Association, Cooperation and Partnership Agreements (Simão, 2018; van Gils, 2020), 2020 brought about three developments of supposedly seismic magnitude. The most significant event, affecting the region's geopolitical order, was the outbreak of …
The EU and its Neighbourhood: The Politics of Muddling Through
The Politics of Flexibility: Exploring the Contested Statehood-EU Actorness Nexus in Georgia
This article examines whether contested statehood represents a hindering condition for EU actorness in Georgia, a country where the EU has had ample opportunities to engage with contested territories. It focuses on EU engagement in Georgia in three policy areas – conflict management, migration and mobility, and trade – where the implications of divergent conceptions of sovereignty, legitimate authority and territoriality are most salient. The art…
Reflections on borders, boundaries and the limits of EUrope
The EU, Middle Eastern powers and milieu-shaping in the ‘shared’ Arab Mediterranean neighbourhood: A Story of Mutual Neglect
The EU and the six Gulf Cooperation Council member states have been engaged in milieu-shaping in their shared Arab Mediterranean neighbourhood. This article argues that this engagement has taken place in a disconnected way rather than in a coordinated fashion. The majority of GCC countries have been guided by neo-realist considerations with a focus on short- and mid-term gains and occasional recourse to hard power. In contrast, the EU, through it…
The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy
This book analyses the revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) which entered into force in May 2011, thereby replacing its predecessor of 2003/2004. The edited volume provides a structured and comprehensive overview of the most recent developments in EU foreign policy (EUFP) towards the EU’s southern and eastern neighbourhood through the prism of continuity and change. By critically examining EU action and inaction in the framework of the 201…
Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy
Of policy entrepreneurship, bandwagoning and free-riding: EU member states and multilateral cooperation frameworks for Europe’s southern neighbourhood
Over the past 25 years the EU and NATO have displayed considerable agency and thus influence as far as the development of institutionalised collective cooperation and/or foreign policy frameworks towards Europe’s southern neighbourhood is concerned. Against this backdrop, this article puts EU and NATO member states’ foreign policies towards their southern neighbourhood at its centre. After mapping their southern neighbourhood-related interests, i…
Russia's Foreign Policy Towards North Africa in the Wake of the Arab Spring
Since coming to power in 2000, Russian president Vladimir Putin has tried to construct a narrative of regaining Russia's status as a major global power. However, in practice the Kremlin has yet to create a coherent strategy or achieve a sense of a co-ordinated foreign policy. While North Africa has not been at the forefront of this narrative, recently Moscow has intensified its diplomatic links and cooperation with the regimes in the region. The …
Germany and Central and Eastern European Countries: Laggards or Veto-Players
Germany, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have always been loyal members of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP). Yet they have never shown enthusiasm for it or displayed noteworthy activism within a co-operation framework that is perceived by their foreign policy elite as a necessary concession to southern EU member states in order to secure the latter's support for continuing pro-active EU engagement in eastern Europe. With this in mi…
From Brussels with love: Leverage, benchmarking, and the action plans with Jordan and Tunisia in the EU's democratization policy
Published online: 21 Jul 2011
Introduction: The Study of Euro-Mediterranean Cultural and Social Co-operation in Perspective
When the Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) and the then 12 Mediterranean Non-Member countries (MNC) in November 1995 met in Barcelona and solemnly inaugurated the Euro-Mediterranean Part
Culture and community in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership: A roundtable on the third basket, Alexandria 5–7 October 2003
Almost eight years into the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), social and cultural co-operation between the European Union (EU) and the 12 partner countries in the southern Mediterranean is still in its infancy. Although the third basket was originally considered as one of the main innovations within Euro-Mediterranean relations, its pitfalls prevail – a fact that is reflected in the lack of a common shared discourse within academic as well as…
The Mediterranean as a New Foreign Policy Challenge? Sweden and the Barcelona Process
Since the inception of the Barcelona Process in November 1995 particular attention has been paid to the involvement of the EU's southern member countries in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP). Geographically close and historically tied to many of the states of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they have attracted scholarly interest to a large extent whereas analysis of the contributions and interest of the northern member countries o…
From Brussels with love: Leverage, benchmarking, and the action plans with Jordan and Tunisia in the EU's democratization policy
Published online: 21 Jul 2011
Going back and forth: European Union resilience-building in Moldova between 2014 and 2020
This article maps out how domestic scope conditions in Moldova have influenced and shaped the emergence of resilience in EU-Moldova relations and the implementation of EU resilience-building during the period 2014–2020. Drawing on scholarly works addressing the ‘resilience turn’ in the study of European foreign policy, this article argues that EU external action towards Moldova post-2014 is marked by (i) a narrow and minimalist conception of resi…
The EU, Middle Eastern powers and milieu-shaping in the ‘shared’ Arab Mediterranean neighbourhood: A Story of Mutual Neglect
The EU and the six Gulf Cooperation Council member states have been engaged in milieu-shaping in their shared Arab Mediterranean neighbourhood. This article argues that this engagement has taken place in a disconnected way rather than in a coordinated fashion. The majority of GCC countries have been guided by neo-realist considerations with a focus on short- and mid-term gains and occasional recourse to hard power. In contrast, the EU, through it…
The Politics of Flexibility: Exploring the Contested Statehood-EU Actorness Nexus in Georgia
This article examines whether contested statehood represents a hindering condition for EU actorness in Georgia, a country where the EU has had ample opportunities to engage with contested territories. It focuses on EU engagement in Georgia in three policy areas – conflict management, migration and mobility, and trade – where the implications of divergent conceptions of sovereignty, legitimate authority and territoriality are most salient. The art…
Germany and Central and Eastern European Countries: Laggards or Veto-Players
Germany, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have always been loyal members of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP). Yet they have never shown enthusiasm for it or displayed noteworthy activism within a co-operation framework that is perceived by their foreign policy elite as a necessary concession to southern EU member states in order to secure the latter's support for continuing pro-active EU engagement in eastern Europe. With this in mi…
EU external differentiated integration in aviation and trade: What drives Southern neighbours
Russia's Foreign Policy Towards North Africa in the Wake of the Arab Spring
Since coming to power in 2000, Russian president Vladimir Putin has tried to construct a narrative of regaining Russia's status as a major global power. However, in practice the Kremlin has yet to create a coherent strategy or achieve a sense of a co-ordinated foreign policy. While North Africa has not been at the forefront of this narrative, recently Moscow has intensified its diplomatic links and cooperation with the regimes in the region. The …
Beyond External Incentives: The European Union, Wartime Enlargement and the Candidate Countries in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans
The Eastern Mediterranean Energy Bonanza: A Piece in the Regional and Global Geopolitical Puzzle, and the Role of the European Union
This article examines current energy-related disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean. It does so by situating them in the context of the Middle East’s broader geopolitical landscape and by showing how global powers’ interests and involvement have become contingent on the international and regional political environments. The latter augmented the intensity of the contestation and helped move identifiable and tangible factors, such as Exclusive Econo…
The EU and its Neighbourhood: The Politics of Muddling Through
Of policy entrepreneurship, bandwagoning and free-riding: EU member states and multilateral cooperation frameworks for Europe’s southern neighbourhood
Over the past 25 years the EU and NATO have displayed considerable agency and thus influence as far as the development of institutionalised collective cooperation and/or foreign policy frameworks towards Europe’s southern neighbourhood is concerned. Against this backdrop, this article puts EU and NATO member states’ foreign policies towards their southern neighbourhood at its centre. After mapping their southern neighbourhood-related interests, i…
Introduction: The Study of Euro-Mediterranean Cultural and Social Co-operation in Perspective
When the Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) and the then 12 Mediterranean Non-Member countries (MNC) in November 1995 met in Barcelona and solemnly inaugurated the Euro-Mediterranean Part
The Mediterranean as a New Foreign Policy Challenge? Sweden and the Barcelona Process
Since the inception of the Barcelona Process in November 1995 particular attention has been paid to the involvement of the EU's southern member countries in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP). Geographically close and historically tied to many of the states of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they have attracted scholarly interest to a large extent whereas analysis of the contributions and interest of the northern member countries o…
The Mediterranean as a New Foreign Policy Challenge? Sweden and the Barcelona Process
Since the inception of the Barcelona Process in November 1995 particular attention has been paid to the involvement of the EU's southern member countries in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP). Geographically close and historically tied to many of the states of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they have attracted scholarly interest to a large extent whereas analysis of the contributions and interest of the northern member countries o…
Culture and community in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership: A roundtable on the third basket, Alexandria 5–7 October 2003
Almost eight years into the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), social and cultural co-operation between the European Union (EU) and the 12 partner countries in the southern Mediterranean is still in its infancy. Although the third basket was originally considered as one of the main innovations within Euro-Mediterranean relations, its pitfalls prevail – a fact that is reflected in the lack of a common shared discourse within academic as well as…
Introduction: The Study of Euro-Mediterranean Cultural and Social Co-operation in Perspective
When the Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) and the then 12 Mediterranean Non-Member countries (MNC) in November 1995 met in Barcelona and solemnly inaugurated the Euro-Mediterranean Part
Germany and Central and Eastern European Countries: Laggards or Veto-Players
Germany, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have always been loyal members of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP). Yet they have never shown enthusiasm for it or displayed noteworthy activism within a co-operation framework that is perceived by their foreign policy elite as a necessary concession to southern EU member states in order to secure the latter's support for continuing pro-active EU engagement in eastern Europe. With this in mi…
From Brussels with love: Leverage, benchmarking, and the action plans with Jordan and Tunisia in the EU's democratization policy
Published online: 21 Jul 2011
Russia's Foreign Policy Towards North Africa in the Wake of the Arab Spring
Since coming to power in 2000, Russian president Vladimir Putin has tried to construct a narrative of regaining Russia's status as a major global power. However, in practice the Kremlin has yet to create a coherent strategy or achieve a sense of a co-ordinated foreign policy. While North Africa has not been at the forefront of this narrative, recently Moscow has intensified its diplomatic links and cooperation with the regimes in the region. The …
Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy
Of policy entrepreneurship, bandwagoning and free-riding: EU member states and multilateral cooperation frameworks for Europe’s southern neighbourhood
Over the past 25 years the EU and NATO have displayed considerable agency and thus influence as far as the development of institutionalised collective cooperation and/or foreign policy frameworks towards Europe’s southern neighbourhood is concerned. Against this backdrop, this article puts EU and NATO member states’ foreign policies towards their southern neighbourhood at its centre. After mapping their southern neighbourhood-related interests, i…
The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy
This book analyses the revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) which entered into force in May 2011, thereby replacing its predecessor of 2003/2004. The edited volume provides a structured and comprehensive overview of the most recent developments in EU foreign policy (EUFP) towards the EU’s southern and eastern neighbourhood through the prism of continuity and change. By critically examining EU action and inaction in the framework of the 201…
The EU, Middle Eastern powers and milieu-shaping in the ‘shared’ Arab Mediterranean neighbourhood: A Story of Mutual Neglect
The EU and the six Gulf Cooperation Council member states have been engaged in milieu-shaping in their shared Arab Mediterranean neighbourhood. This article argues that this engagement has taken place in a disconnected way rather than in a coordinated fashion. The majority of GCC countries have been guided by neo-realist considerations with a focus on short- and mid-term gains and occasional recourse to hard power. In contrast, the EU, through it…
Reflections on borders, boundaries and the limits of EUrope
The EU and its Neighbourhood: The Politics of Muddling Through
The Politics of Flexibility: Exploring the Contested Statehood-EU Actorness Nexus in Georgia
This article examines whether contested statehood represents a hindering condition for EU actorness in Georgia, a country where the EU has had ample opportunities to engage with contested territories. It focuses on EU engagement in Georgia in three policy areas – conflict management, migration and mobility, and trade – where the implications of divergent conceptions of sovereignty, legitimate authority and territoriality are most salient. The art…
Going back and forth: European Union resilience-building in Moldova between 2014 and 2020
This article maps out how domestic scope conditions in Moldova have influenced and shaped the emergence of resilience in EU-Moldova relations and the implementation of EU resilience-building during the period 2014–2020. Drawing on scholarly works addressing the ‘resilience turn’ in the study of European foreign policy, this article argues that EU external action towards Moldova post-2014 is marked by (i) a narrow and minimalist conception of resi…
Territorial Conflict, Domestic Crisis, and the Covid‐19 Pandemic in the South Caucasus. Explaining Variegated EU Responses
For the three countries of the South Caucasus region, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, linked to the EU through its European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), the Eastern Partnership (EaP) and a diverse set of Association, Cooperation and Partnership Agreements (Simão, 2018; van Gils, 2020), 2020 brought about three developments of supposedly seismic magnitude. The most significant event, affecting the region's geopolitical order, was the outbreak of …
The Eastern Mediterranean Energy Bonanza: A Piece in the Regional and Global Geopolitical Puzzle, and the Role of the European Union
This article examines current energy-related disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean. It does so by situating them in the context of the Middle East’s broader geopolitical landscape and by showing how global powers’ interests and involvement have become contingent on the international and regional political environments. The latter augmented the intensity of the contestation and helped move identifiable and tangible factors, such as Exclusive Econo…
Beyond External Incentives: The European Union, Wartime Enlargement and the Candidate Countries in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans
EU external differentiated integration in aviation and trade: What drives Southern neighbours
Political science (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (11 works) · International trade (11 works) · Law (11 works) · European union (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economy (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (8 works)