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The Eastern Partnership as an opportunity structure for Georgian ngo’s Thijs Rommens Institute for International and European Policy K.U. Leuven, Belgium thijs.rommens@soc.kuleuven.be PhD. research 2008-2012
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Impetus for research Critical assessment EU democracy promotion post accession Critical assessment democratisation and europeanisation agenda in Georgia --> ambiguity
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Research question Have the policies of the EU transformed the political environment for Georgian ngo’s, making the EU’s policies a political opportunity structure for them?
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Theoretical framework Democracy assistance not as: - socialisation - conditionality but as: (network) governance (Börzel, Lavenex,…)
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Methodology Single case study Qualitative research Process tracing
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Data collection Literature - primary: EU and domestic governmental - secondary: material produced by ngo’s Elite, semi structured, interviews - exploratory interviews: EU, Ge’n officials, ngo’s - ngo’s members working on EU/ENP/EaP Small scale survey - ngo’s active within National Platform (80)
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Hypothesis 1)EU: opportunity structure for Georgian ngo’s 2)Creation of new patterns of relations between ngo’s, EU, government 3)Opening up constructive dialogue
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Preliminary results Limited bottom up interest from ngo’s Slowly growing process of inclusion of ngo’s from side of EU Limited creation networks certain policy fields
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Some issues Separating EU from other actors? Operationalising concept ‘governance’ Ngo’s:- analytical framework -Link to (civil) society
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