Differentiated Europeanization in Moldova and Ukraine in the wake of the 2022 EU enlargement: assessing the impact of European external influence and domestic factors

Bilancioni, Giada (A.A. 2023/2024) Differentiated Europeanization in Moldova and Ukraine in the wake of the 2022 EU enlargement: assessing the impact of European external influence and domestic factors. Tesi di Laurea in The international relations of Europe, Luiss Guido Carli, relatore Thomas Christiansen, pp. 104. [Master's Degree Thesis]

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Abstract/Index

Relations with the EU and alignment with the acquis communitaire: Ukraine and Moldova’s path towards membership. Two tools to engage with the neighborhood: European neighborhood policy and EU enlargement policy. A historical overview of EU-Ukraine and EU-Moldova relations: 1990s-2022 perspective. Progress in EU acquis alignment: Moldova and Ukraine’s first year as candidate countries to the EU membership. The theoretical foundation of the Europeanization process and the methodology to investigate it: structural and actor-centered approach. External factors driving Europeanization: EU’s normative power as the trigger to integration. The influence of domestic factors: the rationalist and social constructivist institutional approaches to the empirical analysis. Structural and actor-centered methodology. Ukraine and Moldova in comparison: an analysis of the internal dynamics and external EU influences on their Europeanization process. The impact of internal structural factors’ resilience on the Europeanization process of Moldova and Ukraine. The impact of EU’s foreign direct investments as external structural factor. The impact of the presidents’ leadership capacity as internal actor-centered factor. The impact of EU public opinion as external actor-centered factor.

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Bibliografia: pp. 91-103.

Thesis Type: Master's Degree Thesis
Institution: Luiss Guido Carli
Degree Program: Master's Degree Programs > Master's Degree Program in International Relations (LM-52)
Chair: The international relations of Europe
Thesis Supervisor: Christiansen, Thomas
Thesis Co-Supervisor: Amadio Vicerè, Maria Giulia
Academic Year: 2023/2024
Session: Autumn
Deposited by: Alessandro Perfetti
Date Deposited: 29 Apr 2025 16:49
Last Modified: 29 Apr 2025 16:49
URI: https://tesi.luiss.it/id/eprint/41921

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