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The European Union and Conflict Prevention. What Europeanization?

  • Elena Baracani is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna, where she is currently teaching ‘Europe in World Politics’ in the MA program in International Relations. Among her publications: L’Unione Europea e la prevenzione dei conflitti. Un’analisi comparata di tre casi di studio: Cipro, Kosovo e Palestina, Il Mulino, 2014; and Unione Europea e democrazia in Turchia, Rubbettino, 2008.

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Abstract

This article presents the main empirical findings of the analysis of the European Union’s activity for conflict prevention in three case studies – Cyprus, Kosovo and Palestine. After having clarified the meaning of conflict ‘resolution’, ‘prevention’ and ‘Europeanization’, it is proposed a classification of the main foreign policy tools at the disposal of the Union to intervene before the escalation of the conflicts, during and after it. Then, the article focuses on the empirical findings of the Europeanization of the conflicts in the case studies, and therefore not only on the instruments used and on the norms promoted, but also on the mechanisms and the conditions that have enabled or not the Union to exert its leverage.

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Elena Baracani

Elena Baracani is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna, where she is currently teaching ‘Europe in World Politics’ in the MA program in International Relations. Among her publications: L’Unione Europea e la prevenzione dei conflitti. Un’analisi comparata di tre casi di studio: Cipro, Kosovo e Palestina, Il Mulino, 2014; and Unione Europea e democrazia in Turchia, Rubbettino, 2008.

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Published Online: 2016-10-13
Published in Print: 2016-11-1

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