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2008.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Relations with the European Union are one of Russia's foreign policy priorities. Today when the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) has expired the sides should decide what to do next. The question is: Does the accumulated experience of many years of cooperation allow the sides to transform their relations into partnership or even strategic partnership, which calls for confidential and sustainable relations and respect for the sides' interests? Here are other no less important questions that totally belong to the EU competence: first, to which extent can the European Union be described as a subject of world politics and which is its international personality? Second: Can an integration structure of 27 members with their inevitably different interests be engaged in strategic partnership in the foreign policy sphere? In my previous article "The European Union: Shortsighted Strategy" (that appeared in International Affairs in 2007) I expressed my doubts about the European Union's legal and political competence in this sphere.
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