To what extent do the EU's relations with the BSEC foster a dynamic of pluralistic regional cooperation in the Black Sea region? A case-study analysis

欧盟与黑海经合组织的关系在多大程度上促进了黑海地区多元化区域合作的活力？

• 批准号: 2273114
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2273114
• 关键词: what; extent; do; EU; relations; what; extent; do; EU; relations

The Ukraine crisis and the emergence of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has sparked significant debates on regionalism, which have continuously represented the Black Sea region as the contiguous Post-Soviet Space torn between two competing European and Eurasian regional models, namely the EU's Eastern Partnership and the EAEU. Hence, Post-Soviet states remain subjugated to the narrow hegemonic geopolitical interests of Russia and the West. Yet, these debates overlook the overlaps between Russia and the EU in the form of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), whose wide-reaching membership spans from the Western Balkans to the Caucasus, including Russia itself, Turkey and three EU member states. This is problematic as it overshadows the BSEC-driven initiatives towards trust-building and sectoral/industry-driven cooperation, thus limiting the study of regionalism to the overarching regional institutions, as opposed to a multi-faceted tapestry of overlapping organisational actors. This research investigates the extent to which the EU's relations with the BSEC fosters a pluralistic dynamic of regional cooperation in the Black Sea region through the case-study of the EU's Black Sea Synergy Policy (BSS). By analysing the content and discourse surrounding key policies of the EU, the BSEC and their respective ruling elites, this research evaluates the extent to which the BSS fosters pluralistic cooperation. This is supported by interviews with practitioners in sectoral working groups from both the BSS and the BSEC. This research thus seeks to contribute to the growing research on the broadening of Post-Soviet regionalism and thus conventional understandings of regional governance.

乌克兰危机以及由俄罗斯领导的欧亚经济联盟（EAEU）的出现引发了有关区域主义的重大辩论，该地区主义不断地代表了黑海地区，因为欧盟的东部合作伙伴和EAEU是两个相互竞争的欧洲和欧亚地区模型之间连续的后苏联后苏联空间。因此，后苏联国家仍然被征服了俄罗斯和西方的霸权地缘政治利益。然而，这些辩论以黑海经济合作（BSEC）的形式忽略了俄罗斯与欧盟之间的重叠，其广泛的成员从西巴尔干西部到高加索地区，包括俄罗斯本身，土耳其和三个欧盟成员国。这是有问题的，因为它使BSEC驱动的倡议掩盖了信任建设和行业/行业驱动的合作，因此将区域主义的研究限制在总体区域机构中，而不是重叠的组织参与者的多方面挂毯。这项研究调查了欧盟与BSEC的关系在多大程度上通过欧盟的黑海协同效应政策（BSS）的案例研究来促进黑海地区地区合作的多元化动态。通过分析围绕欧盟，BSEC及其各自统治精英的关键政策的内容和话语，这项研究评估了BSS促进多元化合作的程度。这得到了BSS和BSEC部门工作组的从业人员的访谈支持。因此，这项研究旨在为扩大后苏联地区主义的扩大以及对区域治理的常规理解做出贡献。