ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the processes through which the Union reframed its policies in the former Soviet Union and differentiated among sub-areas. The reframing of EU policies in the former Soviet Union in 20034 and more specifically the creation of the European Neighbourhood Policy have primarily been analysed in light of the EU's enlargement to Central and Eastern European countries. EU Member States emerged again as the major actors in the agenda-setting process, in the formulation of draft strategies, in their adoption and in their implementation. The EU's attempts to foster the emergence of a regional security order cannot be dissociated from its own emergence as a security actor in the international arena. The analysis of the policies pursued by the EU in the former Soviet Union at the end of the 1990s points to a twofold dynamics of politicisation and differentiation among post-Soviet countries.
