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Striving to create a ‘ring of friends’ (European Commission, 2003, p. 4) around its territory, in 2003 the European Union set up the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The Eastern Partnership (EaP) —which is addressed to six countries; namely, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine—has been a key instrument of this policy since its foundation in 2008. The ENP as an extra-territorial strategy includes measures which are carried out outside (‘extra’) the EU’s territorial dominion—namely, in neighboring countries. Popescu and Wilson state that the EU ‘offers a degree of economic integration, financial assistance and fund political dialogue in exchange for reforms and democratization’ (Popescu & Wilson, 2009, p.13). Subsequently, the EU realizes its own security-related interests through this policy approach since the neighborhood is seen as a possible source of instability and, hence, can endanger the EU’s internal status quo.
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Bruns, B., Happ, D. (2016). EU Extra-territorialization and Securitization: What Does It Mean for Ukraine and Belarus?. In: Bruns, B., Happ, D., Zichner, H. (eds) European Neighbourhood Policy. New Geographies of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-69504-1_7
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