The European Union's ‘Potential We’ between Acceptance and Contestation
Assessing the Positioning of Six Eastern Partnership Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7876471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alena Vieira (0000-0002-5643-0398, Research Centre in Political Science (CICP) and University of Minho Braga, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 297-315 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jcms.13069 |
| OpenAlex | W3082902615 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
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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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |