EFSPS - Russia

People

The listed members of the EFSPS program have a deep understanding in the area of Russia

Projects

The following projects by EFSPS members are in the context of Russia

Connecting the EU with Its Neighbours: Towards a New European Foreign Policy? by Michele Comelli

Aim of the project The project has the following goals: to carry out an in-depth analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) aimed at identifying both its potential for development ... read more

EU-Turkish Relations under the Energy Security angle: The Nabucco test case by Carlo Frappi

read more

The EU as an International Actor in its Eastern Neighbourhood – The Russian Case by Holger Moroff

The EU is developing a new policy towards its eastern neighbourhood. This research project on the Europeanization of security concepts and its expression in the EU’s soft security policies focuses ... read more

The European Neighbourhood Policy towards Eastern Europe – The Perspective of the Neighbours by Andras Racz

The European Neighbourhood Policy towards Eastern Europe – The Perspective of the Neighbours Aim of the project The aim of the research project is two-fold. First, the applicant intends to conduct an ... read more

The European Union and Frozen Conflicts in the South Caucasus by Emma Stewart

The project examines the role of the European Union in preventing and settling conflict in the South Caucasus: a politically unstable and underdeveloped region on the margins of Europe. What ... read more

The role of the new EU member states in European foreign policy towards Russia and Ukraine by Mathias Roth

The research project analyses the role of the new EU member states in the making of European foreign policy (EFP) towards Russia and Ukraine. Even before the May 2004 enlargement, several ... read more

Publications

Several publications by EFSPS members are in the area of Russia

• Alcaro, Riccardo / Emiliano Alessandri (2010): Engaging Russia. Prospect for a long-term European security compact , «European Foreign Affairs Review», vol. 15, no. 2
• Gnedina, Elena / Multiple authors (2009): Synergies vs. Spheres of Influence in the Pan-European Space,
• Touzovskaia, Natalia (2009): Сурков: России нужны свобода и порядок. (Surkov: Russia needs freedom and order), http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/russia/2009/06/090619_surkov_liberalism_disco.shtml
• Touzovskaia, Natalia (2009): Год Медведева у власти: "человеческое лицо режима Путина". (Medvedev's First Year in Power: 'Putin's regime human face'), http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/russia/2009/05/090507_medvedev_year.shtml
• Touzovskaia, Natalia (2009): Россия-Запад: перезагрузка возможна? (Russia and the West: How Possible Is The Reset?), http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_7924000/7924021.stm
• Touzovskaia, Natalia (2009): Новый суд над Ходорковским будет долгим. ( Khodorkovsky's New Trial Will Last), http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/international/newsid_7921000/7921567.stm
• Frappi, Carlo / A.Ferrari, S.Giusti, / T.Penkova, A.Roccucci (2009): "La Russia di fronte alla crisi: Prospettive e ruolo dell’Italia", [Russia and the crisis: Italian role and Perspectives], ISPI, Milan, 2009
• Dura, George (2008): Obstacles to Moldova’s NATO membership, in Foreign Policy (Romanian Edition), “Un NATO prea indepartat?” [“Is NATO out of reach?”] April – May 2008, pp. 36-37. Special edition published ahead of the NATO Summit in Bucharest on 2-4 April 2008.
• Dura, George (2008): The EU and its Member States: Pursuing Diverse Interests in the CIS Region, CASE - Centre for Economic and Social Research (Poland), Network Studies and Analyses, No. 368, September 2008. FP6 Project ENEPO: EU Eastern Neighbourhood - Economic Potential and Future Development
• Touzovskaia, Natalia (2008): Russia facing the PCA negotiations: old challenges, new risks or windows of opportunities?, Paper discussed at the seminar 'L'Italia e la Russia', Italian Foreign Policy Dialogue
• Touzovskaia, Natalia (2008): Москва-Кабул: общие позиции и разные оценки. (Moscow-Kabul: common positions, different views), http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_7420000/7420698.stm
• Tassinari, Fabrizio (2007): "A Shadow EU Strategy for the Wider Black Sea Area", in Peter Volten and Blagovest Tashev (eds.) Establishing Security and Stability in the Wider Black Sea Area. NATO Science for Peace Security Series
• Popescu, Nicu (2007): A Power Audit of EU-Russia Relations, Policy Paper, European Council on Foreign Relations, London (with Mark Leonard)
• Popescu, Nicu (2006): Abkhazia i Yuzhnaya Ossetia: nezavisimost ili vyzhivanie? [Abkhazia and South Ossetia : independence or survival?], in: Pro et Contra Vol. 10, No. 5-6 (34), 2006, Carnegie Moscow Center, pp. 40-52.
• Popescu, Nicu (2006): Russia's Soft Power Ambitions, CEPS Policy Brief 115, 27 October 2006, Brussels.
• Popescu, Nicu (2006): Outsourcing De Facto Statehood: Russia and the Secessionist Entities in Georgia and Moldova, CEPS Policy Brief 109, 20 July 2006.
• Tassinari, Fabrizio / Michael Emerson / Marius Vahl (2006): "A New Agreement between the EU and Russia: Why, What and When?", CEPS Policy Brief No. 103
• Tassinari, Fabrizio (2006): Wider Europe (co-ed.), DIIS books, Copenhagen
• Tassinari, Fabrizio / Marius Vahl (2006): "The Pragmatic Option", in Russia in Global Affairs vol. 4 n. 4