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EU foreign policy and migration: a political and normative assessment
No full textThis chapter summarizes the results of the analysis carried out in the book’s case studies, further elaborating on their consequences for the EU’s foreign policy and its international role. The first part identifies “externalization in emergency mode” and the resurfacing of the EU’s “derivative power” as the main policy developments that characterize the external dimension of the EU’s governance of migration after 2015. The following section analyses the justice claims embedded in these policy developments, highlighting a normative balance of the EU’s migration system of governance leaning towards the conception of justice as non-domination at the expense of impartiality and mutual recognition. The final part explores the impact of the growing migration agenda on the EU’s foreign policy and international role, arguing that the former is contributing to the “normalization” of the EU’s structural foreign policy, the transformation of its external image, and to a weakened role as supporter of the liberal world order
The EU Migration System and Global Justice: An Assessment
No full textThe response of the European Union Migration System of Governance (EUMSG) to the so called migration crisis of 2015-6 has been characterised by practices of paralysis, bordering and externalization. Though not new to the functioning of the EUMSG such practices have been enhanced and stabilised, as a result of the peculiar governance of the system. Leader states, frontliners and periferic countries have all given their contribution not only to the substantive governance of the system, but also to a shift towards a westphalian understanding of justice which gives priority to state sovereignty over the protection of human and specific needs. Trapped between EU level, national and human rights concerns, the EU and state actors in the system have produced results which have been detrimental to the EU’s international credibility as a right-based global actor
The EU's external migration policy and global political justice: the missing link
Full text linkThe chapter introduces the book by pointing out its specific contribution to the debate on the “external dimension” of the European Union’s (EU’s) migration policy. Firstly, the analysis aims to document, explain and assess the implementation of EU policies, especially after 2015 migration crisis, examining case studies representing different contexts – the European neighbourhood, the “neighbours of the neighbours” and the global level – each with their own characteristics in terms of institutional solutions, practices and underlying norms. Secondly, the book proposes a normative assessment of the EU’s actions based on a threefold conception of justice – as “non-domination”, “impartiality”, and “mutual recognition” – and brings to the fore the tensions between the justice claims made by the many actors involved in the EU’s system of migration governance. Thirdly, considering migration a key element of the EU’s external action and thus a crucial perspective to understand and evaluate the EU’s foreign policy and international role, it also looks at how migration governance feeds into the EU’s overall approach in different contexts, as well as the EU’s global stance. The last section introduces the book’s organization and the contents of each chapter
The EU’s approach to Libya and the ‘War on Smuggling’
No full textThe fight against human smuggling has become a pillar of the EU’s strategy on the governance of migration. The alarming conditions in Libya, the main departure point for the Central Mediterranean route, has been a central issue in this context. There is a consensus among observers and policymakers
on the need to tackle this lucrative business and save migrants from the exploitative grasp of criminal networks.
However, the EU’s strategy also has implications for resource allocation and the internal political-economic dynamics of both the EU and third states such as Libya. In this flash brief, GLOBUS researchers Michela Ceccorulli and Enrico Fassi present some of these main implications and discuss how the EU can ensure a just governance of migration
Exceptionalism, Pluralism and Transatlantic Democracy Promotion. Wilson’s Ideas One Century On
No full textThe chapter focuses on one pillar of the Liberal Order – democracy
and its promotion abroad – by analysing its evolution from Wilson
to the present day, adopting a transatlantic perspective. From this
specific angle, it is possible to grasp the evolution and variations of the
USA’s role as the main player engaged in promoting democracy in third
countries, from the Cold War era to G.W. Bush’s campaign to “export”
democracy by force, to the lowest points of the Trump administration.
In addition, this standpoint also allows us to reflect upon the transformation
of Europe’s role – from a target of US action into a leading actor
in the promotion of democracy – as a significant step in the normative
evolution of the Liberal Order in the post-bipolar context. This change,
which is backed by the European Union progressively adopting a set
of distinctive and independent policies to promote democracy both regionally
and on a global scale, introduces an element of pluralism that
was hitherto almost absent in this field. It is here that greatest hope can
be found for overcoming the “crisis of confidence” that seems to be hitting
Western democracies in an age of rising populism
The EU's External Governance of Migration. Perspectives of Justice
No full textThis book examines migration as a key element of the European Union’s (EU’s)
foreign policy and thus a critical domain for understanding and evaluating EU
external action. It documents, explains and assesses the implementation of EU migration policies,
especially after the crisis of 2015, providing a much-needed overall evaluation
and comparison in different geographic contexts. Applying a composite approach
to global political justice, it affords a normative assessment of EU’s action and
shows the tensions between the justice claims of the many actors involved in the
EU migration system of governance
La strategia europea di contrasto al traffico di migranti: il caso della Libia
Full text linkThe fight against human smuggling has become one of the main cornerstones of the
strategy developed by the EU to contrast irregular immigration, in particular since the
migrant crisis of summer 2015.
Analysing the case of the EU approach to Libya, the article highlights the characteristics
of the smuggling market in relation to the country’s “war economy”, and above all the
role that these resources can play in strengthening specific actors, including the various
militias. Overall, the international political economy perspective adopted here shows
how dynamics of co-optation/competition associated with human smuggling – as well
as some external policies – are altering the political balance within the complex Libyan
framework, transforming local economies and challenging security structures in ways
that they could potentially have a profound impact on Libya’s stability, on the security of
the Mediterranean and therefore on the long-term interests of the EU
The coherence of EU Crisis Management in the eastern neighborhood: the case of South Ossetia
Full text linkThe objective of the thesis is to investigate the way(s) in which the EU’s inter-institutional structure can impact its capacity to formulate and implement a coherent crisis management policy in relation to the Georgian-South Ossetian frozen conflict.
The crowded institutional arena of EU crisis management, in which diverse institutional actors perform interrelated functions within the same policy field, makes coherence a relevant analytical concept for exploring the inter-institutional dimension of EU crisis management.
Based on the ‟new institutionalism” argument that “institutions do matter” in EU crisis management, the thesis applies the theory of “Bureaucratic Politics” to assess the extent to which the overlap of inter-institutional mandates affects the coherence of the EU crisis decision making process. The study notes that external coherence within EU crisis management is expected to develop, if inter-institutional coherence already exists.
The thesis considers coherence as a dependent variable, assessing the concept at the nominal level, thereby contributing to specific strands of literature on EU crisis management in the eastern neighborhood and policy coherence respectively.
Applying a typical single case study technique, the research chooses a within-case analysis approach followed by process tracing, and tests the main hypotheses in the two main policy areas, Security and Development Aid, and in the planning and implementation levels.
The empirical results confirm, that the overlap of inter-institutional mandates without further coordination leads to incoherent decision making processes in the Security and Development Aid policy areas. Thus, institutional coordination mechanisms influence the degree to which the overlap of inter-institutional mandates affects the coherence of the EU crisis decision making process
The European Endowment for Democracy and Democracy Promotion in the EU Neighbourhood
No full textThe article analyses the rationale behind the creation of the European Endowment for Democracy and Democracy Promotion in the EU Neighnourhood. The EED represents a step forward in the EU's capacity to foster democracy, but does not necessarily go in the direction of more rationality and effectiveness
L’Azerbaigian e il nuovo ruolo dell’UE nel Caucaso meridionale. Eredità storiche e prospettive politiche
No full textIl saggio introduce alle tematiche di questo volume collettaneo muovendo dai processi di espansione ad Est della UE per analizzare le eredità storiche, sociali ed economiche della modernizzazione azerbaigiana dall'epoca dell'Impero russo fino all'esperienza sovietica con particolare attenzione alla rete di relazioni stabilita da Baku con l'Iran, la Turchia e l'Azerbaigian iraniano. Il saggio quindi affronta alcune fra le più rilevanti opportunità che si delineano per la UE nelle sue relazioni di vicinato con l'Azerbaigian, dal momento della sua rinnovata indipendenza dopo il 1991
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