EU’s Power, Role and Strategy of Mediation in Russia-Ukraine Gas Dispute and Russia-Georgia Conflict

• Main Authors: Yun-ya Kao, 高韻雅
• Other Authors: 劉必榮
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78922392314833113095

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 政治學系 === 100 === The paper is discussing about mediation power, role and strategy of EU, when it intervene into Russia-Ukraine gas dispute and Russia-Georgia conflict, the differences between them. To Use “Common Foreign and Security Policy” as a framework, power, role and strategy are variables to analysis of “common declarations”, “common positions”, “common strategies”, and “joint actions”. What are the key points make EU success and fail? Why are they special? EU was a stakeholder when it mediated Russia-Ukraine gas dispute, it was a dispute between Russia and its former republics and also a non-military task. As a premise of the same benefits, European Commission was standing for the whole EU to engage the dispute. On the other hand, in the Russia-Georgia conflict, although it was also a dispute between Russia and its former republics, EU didn’t have immediate crisis. Besides, EU members had different opinions among them, so only the President of European Council as a representative of EU to mediate the conflict. We can do the comparative from the two cases to know the relative relations of power, role and strategy of mediation by EU. EU is a supranational organization, the purpose of the article is to understand when it engaging in the mediation, compare to a single nation/ state, what are advantages and disadvantages of it? What are the specialities of EU?