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Coming Closer or Drifting Apart? EU-Russia Partnership and EU Enlargement in Eastern Europe


All Resources: Coming Closer or Drifting Apart? EU-Russia Partnership and EU Enlargement in Eastern Europe
Jeronim Perovic
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

The following represents a compilation of recommended reading and useful Internet links on Russia-EU relations and EU enlargement.

Recommended reading:

"Attitudes Towards EU Membership in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Russian Federation." Opinion research conducted by the Central European Opinion Research Group, Brussels, May 2002, at http://www.ceorg-europe.org.

Averre, Derek. "Russia's Security Policy Towards the West." Paper presented at the 5th ISF Conference in Zurich, October 14-16, 2002, at http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isf .

------. Security Perceptions Among Local Elites and Prospects for Cooperation Across Russia's Northwestern Borders. Regionalization of Russian Foreign and Security Policy, Working Paper, No. 16. Zurich: Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, March 2002.

Baldwin, R., J. F. François and R. Portes. "The Costs and Benefits of EU Enlargement in Eastern Europe." Economic Policy 24 (April 1997).

Baranovsky, Vladimir. Russia's Attitudes Towards the EU: Political Aspects. Programme on the Northern Dimension of the CFSP, No. 13. Helsinki and Berlin: The Finnish Institute of International Affairs and the Institut für Europäische Politik, 2001.

Bordacev, Timofej V. "Russlands neue Aussenpolitik und die Europäische Union." Osteuropa 52:11 (November 2002): 1404-1417.

Colton, Timothy J. and Michael McFaul. Are Russians Undemocratic? Russia Domestic Politics Project of the Russian and Eurasian Program, Working Paper, No. 20. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, June 2001.

Cottrell, Robert, et al. Russia and the WTO. London: Centre for European Reform, 2002.

Deutsch, Karl W., et al. Political Community in the North Atlantic Area: International Organization in the Light of Historical Experience. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957.

Emerson, Michael. The Elephant and the Bear: The European Union, Russia and Their Near Abroads. Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, 2001.

"Evropa i germania glazami Rossiian [Europe and Germany in the Russian view]." Moscow, October 2002, at http://www.fesmos.ru.

Fairlie, Lyndelle D. and Alexander Sergounin. Are Borders Barriers? EU Enlargement and the Russian Region of Kaliningrad. Programme on the Northern Dimension of the CFSP, No. 13. Helsinki and Berlin: The Finnish Institute of International Affairs and Institut für Europäische Politik, 2001.

Gower, Jackie. "EU-Russia Relations and the EU Enlargement in Eastern Europe: Integration or Isolation?" Perspectives on European Politics and Society 1:1 (December 2000): 75-93.

Götz, Roland. Russlands Beitrag zur Energiesicherheit der EU unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Erdgasmarkts. SWP-Studien, No. 12. Berlin: Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Politik, April 2002.

Hamilton, Carl B. "Russia's European Integration: Escapism and Realities." Working Paper. London: Stockholm School of Economic and CEPR, 25 April 2002.

Haukkala, Hiski. Towards a Union of Dimensions: The Effects of EU Enlargement in Eastern Europe on the Northern Dimension. FIIA Report, No. 2. Helsinki: Finnish Institute of International Affairs, 2002.

------. Two Reluctant Regionalizers? The European Union and Russia in Europe's North. Programme on the Northern Dimension of the CFSP, UPI Working Papers, No. 32 (Helsinki and Berlin: The Finnish Institute of International Affairs and Institut für Europäische Politik, 2001).

Haukkala, Hiski and Sergei Medvedev, eds. The EU Common Strategy on Russia: Learning the Grammar of the CFSP. Programme on the Northern Dimension of the CFSP, No. 11. Helsinki and Berlin: The Finnish Institute of International Affairs and Institut für Europäische Politik, 2001.

Huisman, Sander. A New European Union Policy for Kaliningrad. Occasional Papers, No. 33. Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies, March 2002.

Inglehart, Ronald. The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles Among Western Publics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Timmermann, Heinz. Strategische Partnerschaft: Wie kann die EU Russland stärker einbinden? SWP-Aktuell, No. 12. Berlin: Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Politik, April 2002.

------. Kaliningrad: Eine Pilotregion für die Gestaltung der Partnerschaft EU-Russland? SWP-Studie, No. 23. Berlin: Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Politik, August 2001.

Trenin, Dmitri. "A Russia-Within-Europe: Working Toward a New Security Arrangement." Paper prepared for the IISS/CEPS European Security Forum, Brussels, 14 January 2002, at http://www.eusec.org/trenin.htm .

------. "Russland und die neue Weltordnung: Eine Moskauer Sicht." Internationale Politik 57:10 (October 2002): 12-18.

Vahl, Marius. Just Good Friends? The EU-Russian "Strategic Partnership" and the Northern Dimension. Working Document, No. 166. Brussels: Center for European Policy Studies, March 2001.

White, Stephen, Ian McAllister, Margot Light, and John Löwenhardt. "A European or a Slavic Choice? Foreign Policy and Public Attitudes in Post-soviet Europe." Europe-Asia Studies 54:2 (2002): 181-202.

Internet Resources

General information/link archives

Center of European Documentation in St. Petersburg (maintained by the School of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University):
http://www.edc.spb.ru/home.htmle (English version)
http://www.edc.spb.ru/ (Russian Version)
http://data.cirp.info/ (access to the databases)

Collection of links and publications on the European Union (maintained by the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States):
http://www.eurunion.org/publicat/home.htm

European Research Paper Archives (common access point for various online working paper series in the field of European integration research):
http://eiop.or.at/erpa/

EU-Russia Archive (maintained by the Berlin Information Center for Transatlantic Security):
http://www.bits.de/EURA/EURAMAIN.htm

International Relations and Security Network (ISN), links library:
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/infoservice/linkslib/
Section on EU enlargement:
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/infoservice/linkslib/index.cfm?service=linkslib&Parent=895
Section on EU-Russia relations:
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/infoservice/linkslib/index.cfm?service=linkslib&Parent=2816

Selected reading/links on Russia's security policy and EU-Russia relations (compiled by the CEPS/IISS European Security Forum):
http://www.eusec.org/20020114.htm

Official websites

The EU official site:
http://europa.eu.int/

EU relations with Russia, official EU site:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/russia/intro/index.htm

EU official information on the enlargement process:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/index_en.html

Delegation of the European Commission in Russia:
http://www.eur.ru/eng/neweur/user_eng.php?func=index (in English and Russian)

Council of the European Union:
http://ue.eu.int/en/summ.htm
Section on the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP):
http://ue.eu.int/pesc/default.asp?lang=en

Official site of the President of the Russian Federation:
http://www.president.kremlin.ru

Official site of the Russian Federation central and regional administrative bodies:
http://www.gov.ru/

Links to official documents on EU-Russia relations

General collection of official agreements between the EU and Russia (in English and Russian):
http://data.cirp.info/rus-eu/

Common Strategy of the European Union on Russia of 4 June 1999:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/ceeca/com_strat/russia_99.pdf

Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Russia of 1 December 1997:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/ceeca/pca/pca_russia.pdf

Implementation of the EU Common Strategy on Russia: EU Trade Policy Priorities in the Short to Medium Term:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/pdf/str_russia.pdf

Russia: Country Strategy Paper 2002-2006 and National Indicative Programme 2002-2003, adopted by the EU Commission on 27 December 2001:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/russia/csp/02-06_en.pdf

Statements resulting from EU-Russian summits in 2000-2:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/russia/intro/summit.htm

The Russian Federation Middle Term Strategy Towards the European Union (2000-2010), approved by the President of the Russian Federation on 3 June 2000:
http://www.eur.ru/eng/neweur/user_eng.php?func=apage&id=53 (in English)
http://www.eur.ru/neweur/user.php?func=apage&id=9 (in Russian)

Russia-EU news services:

EUobserver.com - for the latest EU-related news:
http://www.euobserver.com/

Hot topics: Russia-EU relations (maintained by The Russia Journal Daily):
http://www.russiajournal.com

RFE/RL Special on European Union Eastward Expansion:
http://www.rferl.org/nca/special/EUEXPANDS/

EU-Russia trade and economic relations

EU-Russia bilateral trade relations and statistics (maintained by the EU Commission):
http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/bilateral/russia/russia.htm

Information on trade and economic relations (maintained by the EU-Russia Industrialists' Round Table):
http://www.eu-russia.org/

Research institutions with focus on EU-Russia relations and/or EU enlargement

Center for European Policy Studies:
http://www.ceps.be/index.php

Centre for European Reform online:
http://www.cer.org.uk/
Section on Russia and the EU program:
http://www.cer.org.uk/world/russia.html
Section on EU enlargement program:
http://www.cer.org.uk/enlargement/index.html

European Policy Centre
http://www.theepc.be/
Section on Challenge Europe Dossiers (online journal published by the European Policy Centre):
http://www.theepc.be/challenge/dossiers.asp?SEC=challenge

European Union Institute for Security Studies:
http://www.iss-eu.org/

Maps

Map of Kaliningrad

Map of EU Northern Dimension