Working paper on EU policies towards Libya and Ukraine

Background paper providing a top-down overview of strategic documents and action plans. The researchers will conduct both a desk review (content analysis, discourse analysis), and a preliminary round of interviews in Brussels. The paper aims at identifying two possible EU policy models, targeting/addressing the neighbourhood, one directed towards the Eastern flank and the other the Southern flank. The paper provides a theoretically-informed account of EU policy making in an evolving strategic scenario, by examining actions undertaken by key EU and non-EU actors throughout the conflict cycle.