Ochirova The EU Kaliningrad Policy: Mapping Kaliningrad's Place inside the European Union

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-428-53413-5
Verlag: Duncker & Humblot
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 12, 400 Seiten

Reihe: Chemnitzer Europastudien

The Kaliningrad Oblast is a subject of the Russian Federation which became an EU's enclave upon its Eastern enlargement of 2004. This inquiry examines the intricate position of the Kaliningrad region inside the European Union from a legal and institutional rather than geopolitical perspective. Challenging conventional notions about inclusion of third units into the EU and attempting to bridge a gap in the academic literature on the EU's policy towards Kaliningrad, the paper tests the hypothesis that the Kaliningrad Oblast is to a certain extent included or integrated into the EU. More particularly, while spelling out and assessing the EU's Kaliningrad policy it seeks to answer the main research question as to whether this policy can be qualified as essentially a policy of inclusion.

The inquiry proceeds from manifold assumptions of the "insides" and "outsides" of the EU, the growing flexibility of models of integration into the Union as well as the notions of the EU's borders including geopolitical, institutional/legal, transactional and cultural borders which consistently become fuzzier. A substantial part of the paper rests on the study of the bilateral political, legal and institutional relationship between the EU and Russia. Furthermore, the paper scrutinizes the oblast's legal capacity in international relations, as well as its status of Special Economic Zone in the framework of Russian federal policy. It eventually traces and systematizes the EU's activities in its eastern enclave. Although the analysis of the policy by the EU directed towards Kaliningrad does not allow calling it a clear policy of inclusion it still dismisses the idea of the EU treating Kaliningrad as a clear outsider.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ochirova, Irina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Introduction: The problématique of the Kaliningrad Oblast - The objective and relevance of the analysis - Theoretical and analytical framework - Methodology and analytical approach - Summary and overview of Chapters - II. The legal and political status of the Kaliningrad Oblast: The Kaliningrad Oblast in the context of the EU Eastern enlargement: a historical, geopolitical and economic perspective - The legal capacity of the Kaliningrad Oblast in international relations - The status of the Kaliningrad Oblast in the framework of Russian federal policy - III. Overview of EU-Russia relations and their implications for Kaliningrad: The dynamics of the development of EU-Russia relations - The Kaliningrad Oblast in EU-Russia relations - The political and legal foundation of EU-Russia relations - IV. The involvement of the Kaliningrad Oblast in EU policies: The political position of the EU towards the Kaliningrad Oblast - The EU's policy towards the Kaliningrad Oblast - V. Conclusion - VI. Bibliography - Index