The European neighbourhood policy in perspective : context, implementation and impact

Contributors offer new approaches to the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy. While the main emphasis is on the empirical assessment of the impact that the ENP has had to-date and on the factors that have shaped its implementation, it also provides new theoretical and methodological perspectives on how to study this policy area. In implementing the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the European Union offers a deeper political and economic relationship to its neighbours - but without a promise of EU membership. The ENP is intended to be a strategic approach to the post-enlargement situation which redraws boundaries between the EU 'insiders' and the 'outsiders' on the EU's borders. This volume presents an empirical exploration of the ENP, in which the main emphasis is on an assessment of the impact the ENP has had so far and the factors that have shaped its implementation since 2003. The volume also provides a perspective on how to study this relatively new policy area. It contends that the ENP represents a distinctive challenge for scholars studying the European Union and that the development of a structured relationship that embraces neighbouring states represents a 'coming of age' for the Union Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Much Ado About Nothing? The European Neighbourhood Policy in Context....Pages 3-26 Front Matter....Pages 27-27 As You Like It: European Union Normative Power in the European Neighbourhood Policy....Pages 29-50 Identity Construction through the ENP: Borders and Boundaries, Insiders and Outsiders....Pages 51-72 The ENP, Security, and Democracy in the Context of the European Security Strategy....Pages 73-88 The ENP’s Strategic Conception and Design Overstretching the Enlargement Template?....Pages 89-109 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Lessons from the Balkans: The ENP as a Possible Conflict Management Tool?....Pages 113-134 The ENP and Transatlantic Relations....Pages 135-160 Explaining Russian Reactions to the European Neighbourhood Policy....Pages 161-177 Front Matter....Pages 179-179 The ENP and the EU’s Eastern Neighbours: Ukraine and Moldova as Test Cases....Pages 181-205 The Impact of the ENP on EU-North Africa Relations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly....Pages 206-222 The ENP and the Southern Caucasus: Meeting the Expectations?....Pages 223-246 The ENP and the Middle East....Pages 247-256 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 The ENP in Future Perspective....Pages 259-270 Back Matter....Pages 271-274 "In implementing the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the European Union offers a deeper political and economic relationship to its neighbours--but without a promise of EU membership. The ENP is intended to be a strategic approach to the post-enlargement situation which redraws boundaries between the EU 'insiders' and the 'outsiders' on the EU's borders. This volume presents an empirical exploration of the ENP, in which the main emphasis is on an assessment of the impact the ENP has had so far and the factors that have shaped its implementation since 2003. The volume also provides a perspective on how to study this relatively new policy area. It contends that the ENP represents a distinctive challenge for scholars studying the European Union and that the development of a Structured relationship that embraces neighbouring states represents a 'coming of age' for the Union"--Provided by publisher This volume presents an empirical exploration of the ENP, in which the main emphasis is on an assessment of the impact the ENP has had so far and the factors that have shaped its implementation since 2003. The volume also provides a perspective on how to study this relatively new policy area. It contends that the ENP represents a distinctive challenge for scholars studying the European Union and that the development of a Structured relationship that embraces neighbouring states represents a ̀coming of age' for the Union. --Book Jacket "This collection provides an excellent overview of the ENP's main features and challenges."--Toby Vogel, European Voice