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Energy and Human Rights: Two Irreconcilable Foreign Policy Goals? [1]

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Energy and Human Rights: Two Irreconcilable Foreign Policy Goals? The Case of the Trans-Caspian Pipeline in EU-Turkmen Relations

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Autori:
Vanessa Boas [4]
15/03/2012

The EU has been divided on how to frame its relations with resource-rich dictatorships. While energy security and the promotion of democracy/human rights are both foreign policy priorities, Brussels has frequently been criticized for trading the latter for its energy interests. In the case of Turkmenistan, negotiations on the Trans-Caspian pipeline have gone ahead without the inclusion of normative conditions. There are however dissenting voices in the EU which advocate the application of human rights based conditionality prior to the deepening of energy relations with Ashgabat. This paper argues that the EU lacks the necessary leverage for such an approach and should instead focus on using the proposed energy deal as a means of ushering in positive change through the inclusion of normative provisions into its sectoral policies in the country.

Documento presentato al seminario [5] su "Interests vs Values: the EU's policy towards Central Asia", Roma, 26 marzo 2012.

iaiwp1207.pdf [3]

Dettagli

  • Dati bibliografici

    Roma, Istituto Affari Internazionali, 2012, 16 p.
  • In:
    IAI Working Papers [2]
  • Numero

    1207
  • ISBN/ISSN/DOI:
    978-88-98042-44-9

Indice

Introduction
1. The Central Asian Trade-off
2. Why Turkmenistan?
3. The Prospects of a Trans-Caspian Pipeline
4. The Potential Ramifications for EU-Turkmen Relations
4.1. European Approaches: Value-based Conditionality and Interest-driven Engagement
4.2. The Limits of a Value-based Policy in Turkmenistan
4.3. The Potential Fruits of An Interest-driven Engagement Policy with Turkmenistan
Conclusion
References


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Collegamenti
[1] https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/c21/energy-and-human-rights-two-irreconcilable-foreign-policy-goals [2] https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/lista/all/iai-working-papers [3] https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/iaiwp1207.pdf [4] https://www.iai.it/it/persone/vanessa-boas [5] https://www.iai.it/it/eventi/interests-vs-values-eus-policy-towards-central-asia