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Theorising institutional change in the eastern neighbourhood -- Reforming Ukraine : the EU's institutional change in Ukraine's migration sector -- The EU's institutional change in the environmental protection sector -- Reforming Moldova : the EU's institutional change in Moldova's migration sector -- EU-induced institutional change in Moldova's environmental protection sector -- EU-induced change in the neighbourhood : lessons from Ukraine and Mmoldova

This book analyses the role of the European Union in the process of institutional change in its Eastern neighbourhood and explains why EU policies arrive at contradictory outcomes at the sectoral level. Combining EU studies approaches with insights from the fields of new institutionalism, international development studies and transnationalisation, it explains how the EU policies contribute to rule persistence or lead to institutional change. Highlighting the importance of investigating how the policies of external intervention interact with domestic institutions, the book also provides a coherent presentation of the political and economic problems of Ukraine and Moldova and a comparative analysis in key areas at critical junctures of their development. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics and more broadly to International Relations, post-Soviet and Russian studies.

"This book discusses a reconfiguration of Belarus-Russia relations and its wider implications. It analyses the ongoing transformation of the Russian policies towards Belarus and how this will affect the future of both the Belarusian regime and Belarus as a sovereign country within the context of drastically evolving new regional security order"--

This article studies the political developments of Communist successor parties (CSPs) in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova since the 2010s to identify conditions for their ideological renewal. We find that embeddedness in the patronalist systems is a major impeding factor to ideological renewal and the removal of patronal shackles and governmental responsibility are its key drivers. In terms of the prospects of Russia's communist party, an unreformed CSP may win elections but the actual ideological renewal begins while in power, as the case of Moldova shows. At the same time, the interdependence between the access to power and ideological renewal resembles a vicious circle. While a clientilistic status disincentivizes the real competition for power, the access to power becomes a nearly impossible task until the system collapses. As the example of the Ukrainian communists show, the danger is that the systemic collapse may also bring down its clients as well.