ABSTRACT
The European integration project is not simply reducible to political economy, despite the original European Economic Community (EEC) focuses on trade relations. Functional cooperation has been a means to create a pluralistic European unity to overcome antagonisms that culminated in the catastrophes of World War. The one-sidedness of EU policies toward its neighbourhood constitutes a form of narrow power. This chapter examines the EU's neighbourhood policy, explicating and assessing the two underlying hypotheses about the liberal conditions of peace. It argues that the EU's neighbourhood policy and peace strategy is premised on two general hypotheses about the conditions of peace. To understand the conflict in Ukraine, people need to go back in time to the early 1990s. Global democracy can provide a desirable way to tackle the concerns of Russian nationalists, Eurasianists and other pluralists in our interconnected world.
