EU, Security and The Eastern Partnership

Christian Kaunert is Professor of International Security at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is also Professor of Policing and Security, as well as Director of the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. In addition, he is Jean Monnet Chair, Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Director of the Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism (www.eucter.net).Giselle Bosse is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in EU International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. She is also a fellow at the European Democracy Hub in Brussels.Alena Vieira is Integrated Member of CICP/UMinho and Assistant Professor at the Department for Political Science of the School of Economics and Management of the University of Minho.

• Introduction: Resilient states versus resilient societies? Whose security does the EU protect through the Eastern Partnership in times of geopolitical crises? 1. Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: A case study of Belarus 2. A new business as usual? The impact of the ‘resilience turn’ on the EU’s foreign policy and approach towards the eastern neighbourhood 3. Resilience in EU crisis interventions in Ukraine: A complexity perspective 4. Going back and forth: European Union resilience-building in Moldova between 2014 and 2020 5. Connectivity of the EU’s Eastern Partnership region: Contestation between liberal and illiberal approaches 6. EU Eastern Partnership, Ontological Security and EU- Ukraine/Russian warfare 7. China’s discourse on the belt and road initiative: A hidden threat to European security logic? 8. Do the EU and Ukraine speak the same language? The various notions of resilience before the military intervention 9. Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: Failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space 10. A divorce of convenience: exploring radical right populist parties’ position on Putin’s Russia within the context of the Ukrainian war. A social media perspective 11. Depoliticising the people: Post-normative power Europe in the women-led protests in Belarus Afterword