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Jour Fixe with Tatiana Skripka, 24 January 2011
01/18/2011
We kindly invite you to the Jour Fixe presentation by Dr. Tatiana Skripka on “The EU’s Support for External Regional Cooperation: Model Export or Foreign Policy As Usual?”. Tobias Lenz will be discussant.
The Jour Fixe begins at 4.15 pm (16.15 Uhr) and takes place at Ihnestr. 26, Room 202.
Abstract
This is a very first draft of a paper seeking to unravel the EU’s support for regional cooperation in other parts of the world. In the scholarly literature, it is often taken for granted that the EU’s support for external regionalism entails the export of the EU model. It is argued that through providing other regional initiatives with political, financial or administrative support, as well as through simply developing cooperation with other regional groupings, the EU aims to export its integration experience. This paper takes a step back to explore whether this is really the case. It addresses two questions. First, what is it, if anything, that the EU tries to promote when supporting regional initiatives beyond its own borders? Second, how to explain varying degrees of EU engagement in and support for different regional initiatives? The goal of the paper is thus not to dispute the EU’s role as a benchmark for regional integration in other parts of the world, but to develop a nuanced analytical framework for understanding the various instances of the EU’s support for external regional cooperation. In the next step (beyond the scope of this draft), the paper will be complemented with an empirical part.
