关键词: 欧盟, 邻近区域, 规范, 安全, 等级地缘政治, 排他性

Abstract:

The EU has long positioned itself as a peace project, seeking to transcend the traditional restrictions of geopolitics and realpolitik in order to engage in values- and norms-based social reform and local governance. However, with the onset of the Arab Spring and the Ukraine crisis, the neighborhood region has become a "ring of fire", and the EU's idea and practice of neighborhood strategy have taken a significant turn.This paper mainly adopts a policy text and case study approach.Through the analysis of the EU's neighbourhood policy texts and practices,this paper argues that the EU's strategic narrative on the neighborhood has shifted from a normative orientation to a security orientation, and is guided by geopolitical thinking, presenting a hierarchical order of geopolitical model, adopting a differentiated strategy for the neighborhood, and pursuing its own geostrategic interests more aggressively. Overall, the change in the EU's neighborhood governance philosophy and practice has reduced the relevance of its norm-based association,while the practice of exclusionary competition is not only detrimental to the neighborhood's economic and social development, but also undermines EU's overall credibility.

Key words: European Union, neighbourhood, norms, security, hierarchical geopolitics, exclusivity