ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has performed in relation to the Southern Caucasus, which approaches have been followed, which goals have been delineated, which achievements have been reached, and which shortcomings have surfaced and for which reasons. It highlights the apparent and increasing inefficacy of the European Union's (EU) policies, whose weakening bargaining power and lack of a comprehensive regional strategy are backfiring in its attempt to promote both stability and development in the eastern neighbourhood. The Southern Caucasus could be portrayed as a 'broken region', as the EU special representative for the South Caucasus, Peter Semneby, did in referring to its multiple identity. The chapter focuses on various sub-regional and supra-regional factors that hinder a consistent implementation of the ENP. Despite a growing engagement in the eastern neighbourhood in both economic and security terms, the EU's leverage and influence on the Southern Caucasus seem to be vanishing, along with its power of attraction.
