The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective - Context, Implementation and Impact

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.

Introduction; S.Wolff& R.G.Whitman PART I: THE STUDY OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY European Union Normative Power in the European Neighbourhood Policy; I.Manners Identity Construction through the ENP; B.Tonra The ENP, Security and Democracy in the Context of the European Security Strategy; S.Biscop The ENP's Strategic Conception and Design: Overstretching the Enlargement Template?; C.Gebhard PART II: MAKING SENSE OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY Lessons from the Balkans? The ENP as Conflict Management/Prevention; A.Penn Rodt& S.Wolff The ENP and Transatlantic Relations; S.Rynning and C.P.Jensen Explaining Russian Reactions to the European Neighbourhood Policy; H.Haukkala PART III: THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY IN PRACTICE The ENP and the EU's Eastern Neighbours: Ukraine and Moldova as Testcases; G.Sasse The impact of the ENP on EU-North Africa relations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; F.Bicchi The ENP and the South Caucasus: Meeting Expectations?; N.Ghazaryan ENP and the Middle East; C.E.Jesús CONCLUSIONS: WHERE NEXT FOR THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ENP? The ENP in Future Perspective; A.Missiroli