European Union and Central and Eastern Europe

Dimitris Papadimitriou is Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester, UK, and the Director of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. He is also the co-convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on Southeast Europe.Dorina Baltag is a Marie Curie researcher on EU foreign policy and diplomacy at Loughborough University, UK. Her work has been published with Routledge, Palgrave, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, East European Politics and several European think-tanks.Neculai-Cristian Surubaru is a Researcher at the University of Strathclyde’s European Policies Research Centre (EPRC), UK. He has a PhD in Political Science and European Studies from Loughborough University, UK. His work has appeared in Regional Studies, East European Politics and the Romanian Journal of European Affairs.

• 1. Assessing the performance of the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe and in its neighbourhood Dimitris Papadimitriou, Dorina Baltag and Neculai-Cristian Surubaru 2. The transformative power of Europe” beyond enlargement: the EU’s performance in promoting democracy in its neighbourhood Tanja A. Börzel and Bidzina Lebanidze 3. “Veni, vidi,… vici?” EU performance and two faces of conditionality towards Ukraine Olga Burlyuk and Natalia Shapovalova 4. EU normative performance: a critical theory perspective on the EU’s response to the massacre in Andijon, Uzbekistan Giselle Bosse 5. Between arbitrary outcomes and impeded process: the performance of EU Twinning projects in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood Stefan Roch 6. The more the merrier? Assessing the impact of enlargement on EU performance in energy and climate change policies Pierre Bocquillon and Tomas Maltby 7. Revisiting the role of domestic politics: politicisation and European Cohesion Policy performance in Central and Eastern Europe Neculai-Cristian Surubaru 8. From ambitious goals to improper fit: hybrid performance of Phare pre-accession programme for civil society development in Bulgaria Dessislava Hristova