European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective

FEDERICA BICCHI Lecturer in International Relations of Europe at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics, UK SVEN BISCOP Director of the Security and Global Governance Programme at Egmont The Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels, Belgium CARLOS ECHEVERRÍA JESÚS Professor of International Relations at the Spanish National Open University-UNED in Madrid, Spain CARMEN GEBHARD Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Austria and Associate Fellow at the Institute for Peace Support and Conflict Management at the Austrian National Defence Academy. NARINE GHAZARYAN Research Student at School of Law, University of Nottingham, UKHISKI HAUKKALA Special Adviser at the Unit for Policy Planning and Research at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. CHRISTINE PIHLKJÆR JENSEN Political Consultant for the Danish Financial Services Union (Finansforbundet). IAN MANNERS Head of the EU unit and Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, DenmarkANTONIO MISSIROLI Director of Studies at the European Policy Centre in Brussels, BelgiumANNEMARIE PEEN RODT is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the University of Nottingham, UKSTEN RYNNING Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark. GWENDOLYN SASSE Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College and a University Reader inComparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UKBEN TONRA Director of the UCD College of Human Sciences' Graduate School and Jean Monnet Professor of European Foreign, Security and Defence Policy at the UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Republic of Ireland

'This collection provides an excellent overview of the ENP's main features and challenges.' - Toby Vogel, European Voice 'an important source for students of EU external policies by providing a systematic background to the ENP and neighbouring countries.' Journal of Common Market Studies 'this collection provides the reader with an extensive overview of the ENP and its weaknesses.' Karen Smith, West European Politics.

• 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