Zajednička spoljna i bezbednosna politika Evropske unije prema ukrajinskoj krizi
Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union to the Ukraine Crisis

Summary/Abstract: This paper represents the argument that in the Ukrainian crisis, the EU, not only has fallen short to rise up to the seriousness of the situation (after all, as in past turmoil’s on European soil), but for the first time in its history, has found itself in the role of a serious instigator of an international conflict. Faced with the disastrous consequences of its aggressive and hasty "Europeanization" of the "new" East of Europe (emphasizing the rights to the normative hegemony guided by dominant geopolitical motives), once the conflict flared up, threatening to cause immense consequences for the stability of the post-Cold War security order, it did not have many options but to conform to the policy of the United States. By these actions another opportunity was neglected in the field of foreign policy to formulate a specific European approach that would truly be concerned about the values that are embedded into its Founding Act (Peacemaking and unifying project). The paper concludes that if it wants to regain its damaged international credibility, the EU needs to make a qualitative shift from the current policies predominantly shaped by geopolitical interests, toward political values that many believe are specific to the EU. Partly, this is about the values that are related to its soft power and partly to those that represent the legacy of the political system of the EU, such as the single market without barriers.

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