Managing Security Threats along the EU’s Eastern Flanks

Rick Fawn is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK.

• 1. Chapter 1 The Price and Possibilities of Going East? The European Union and Wider Europe, the European Neighbourhood and the Eastern Partnership.- 2. Chapter 2 Turning points and shifting understandings of European security: The European Neighbourhood Policy’s development.- 3. Chapter 3 The Dilemmas of a Four-headed Russian Eagle for the EU: Russia as Conflict Instigator, Mediator, Saviour and Perpetuator.- 4. Chapter 4 The US and the New Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) Since 1991.- 5. Chapter 5 The EU and pan-European IOs and ʽSymbolic’ Successes and Failures in the Protracted Conflicts in Moldova and Georgia.- 6. Chapter 6 Georgia as a Case Study of EU influence, and How Russia Accelerated EU-Russian relations.- 7. Chapter 7 Security challenges in Ukraine after Euromaidan.- 8. Chapter 8 Iraq and the Kurds: What Threats to European Stability?.- 9. Chapter 9 In-between domestic terrorism, al-Qaeda, and ISIS, or how Russia sees prospects of security cooperation with the EU.- 10. Chapter 10 The EU and Central Asia: The Nuances of an ‘Aided’ Partnership.- 11. Chapter 11 Reflections on How the EU is Handling Threats to Stability in Wider Europe