Unit:
Deparment of Political Science & Public AdministrationLibrary of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Author:
Kaminiaris-Kontostavlos Othon-Alexandros
Dissertation committee:
Εμμανουέλα Δούση, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Αντώνιος Μεταξάς, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Βασιλική Καραγιώργου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Διεθνών, Ευρωπαϊκών και Περιφερειακών Σπουδών, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο
Σουζάννα Βέρνυ, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Μαριλένα Κοππά, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Διεθνών, Ευρωπαϊκών και Περιφερειακών Σπουδών, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο
Παναγιώτης Τσάκωνας, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Δημήτριος Χρυσοχόου, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πολιτικής Επιστήμης και Δημόσιας Διοίκησης, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
The impact of the EU climate change policy on its neighbourhood
Translated title:
Η επιρροή της κλιματικής πολιτικής της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης στη γειτονιά της
Summary:
The thesis in hand occupies itself with the external action of the EU in the climate change and energy sectors, focusing on the EU’s relations with the states of the ENP. It particularly examines the interlinkages between two aspirations of the EU, that of leading by example in the international climate change arena and of shaping the ring of states around it; in other words, whether the EU acts as a leader in climate change in its periphery and towards the sixteen ENP countries. Especially following the European Green Deal and the Fit for 55 and REPowerEU packages, the interplay between the internal and external aspects of the EU’s climate policy as well as between them and its partners (e.g., through CBAM that the EU will employ) have become increasingly relevant.
The thesis finds that despite the fact that the ENP was devised as a policy to serve specific interests, such as the democratisation and stabilisation of the EU’s partners, climate and energy issues were incorporated in the ENP edifice relatively early, actually in both of its branches, the Union for the Mediterranean and the Eastern Partnership. More specifically, three phases can be discerned; they coincide with the creation, evolution and consolidation of the EU’s climate change policy, thus presenting a gradually increasing inclination to green matters. Furthermore, it finds that in its relation with the ENP states, the EU wears three different hats: it acts as an exporter of its own climate and energy norms and strategies, as a mediator between its sixteen partners and the international climate change regime and/or as an enabler for no or low-ambition climate and energy targets. The latter is particularly relevant in cases of states that play a (significant) role in the EU achieving its energy security interests.
Importantly, while wearing these three hats, the EU employs all the instruments and mechanisms available in its arsenal for external action in the form of a nexus in both regions. However, some of its traditional ENP tools widely used in other policy sectors are not used in this case. By contrast, particular emphasis is given on the most efficient tool, that of conditionality. This attests to the fact that the EU is mainly driven by its interest in its relation with the ENP states in the climate and energy sectors and that, at the same time, that is tries to influence more their cost-benefit calculations, drawing less attention to legitimacy issues. This has brought mixed results which depend both on what the EU has to offer and on the aspirations of each partner. Thus, overall, the effectiveness of the EU’s action in the specific sectors can be assessed as medium.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
European Union, Climate and energy policy, EU external action, European Neighnourhood Policy, Union for the Mediterranean, Eastern Partnership, New institutionalism, Institutionalism - Sociological Institutionalism, Europeanization, Norm diffusion
Number of references:
339
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