The EU’s resilience and the management of hybrid threats coming from the Eastern neighbourhood: Belarus and the deliberate facilitation of irregular immigration

IF 0.7 Q2 AREA STUDIES
Edina Lilla Mészárosa, Constantin-Vasile Toca
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Abstract

Taking into consideration the current developments as regards the intensification of the irregular movement of third country nationals at the EU’s border with Belarus, this paper sets as its main objective to assess the resilience building measures that were taken at the level of the affected Member States and that of the EU in order to manage the newly emerged border crisis. It is being argued that we are not dealing with an ordinary migration crisis, but a deliberate act of the Belarusian regime to instrumentalise migrants from the Middle East for political purposes. The research presents the facilitation of irregular immigration in a dual nexus, firstly as a hybrid warfare tool, and secondly, as a shock/stress factor disturbing the system or the prevalent status quo. After presenting the statistics on the modification of the illegal border-crossings between Belarus and the EU in the 2021-2022 period, we shall attempt to briefly analyse the resilience building measures to the hybrid threat of weaponizing migrants that were taken at both Community and Member State level, by grouping them in five resilience building categories: political/legal, institutional, inter-institutional, regulatory and societal.
欧盟的恢复力和对来自东部邻国白俄罗斯的混合威胁的管理,以及故意为非正规移民提供便利
考虑到欧盟与白俄罗斯边境上第三国国民非正规流动加剧的当前事态发展,本文的主要目标是评估受影响成员国和欧盟为管理新出现的边境危机而采取的恢复力建设措施。有人认为,我们面对的不是一场普通的移民危机,而是白俄罗斯政权蓄意将来自中东的移民用作政治工具的行为。该研究提出了在双重关系中促进非正规移民,首先是作为混合战争工具,其次是作为扰乱系统或普遍现状的冲击/压力因素。在介绍了2021-2022年期间白俄罗斯与欧盟之间非法越境的统计数据后,我们将尝试简要分析共同体和成员国层面采取的应对移民武器化混合威胁的复原力建设措施,将其分为五个复原力建设类别:政治/法律、机构、机构间、监管和社会。
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CiteScore
1.30
自引率
16.70%
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3
审稿时长
10 weeks
期刊介绍: The Eastern Journal of European Studies (EJES) seeks to provide a forum for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary dialogue between ideas, and a framework for theoretical and empirical analyses covering major topics in European studies: European history, politics, European economy and European policies, EU community law, European culture and society. EJES encourages studies focusing on Central and Eastern Europe (including Eastern Neighbourhood) in order to better understand its transformations induced by the integration process and to address its specific challenges by supporting scientific debates on the general European theory and practice. Furthermore, the editorial board regularly invites distinguished guest editors to coordinate thematic issues.
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