ABSTRACT
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has evolved into one of the European Union's major foreign policy instruments and received considerable attention. However, other EU neighbourhood policies, and their relevance for the ENP, also require examination. The Arab uprisings, civil wars in Libya and Syria, the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the crisis in Ukraine and Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula have all brought the institutional design and tools of the ENP into question and a comparative perspective is crucial to understand EU neighbourhood policies in a wider sense.
This timely book puts the ENP into context by exploring the major challenges and key lessons of the EU's other policy frameworks with neighbouring countries. Mapping the EU's bi-lateral and multilateral neighbourhood relations in comparison to the ENP and investigating the major challenges faced, it provides a comprehensive, up-to-date view of the EU's relations with its neighbours. Focusing on current affairs and future challenges, the comparison with the ENP and the lessons to be drawn, generate novel insights into the EU's closest external relations.
This book will be of key interest to students and scholars studying European Politics, policies and comparative politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|16 pages
Mapping the European Union's neighbourhood relations
part 1|74 pages
Multilateral EU neighbourhood relations
chapter 3|22 pages
Differentiated integration in the European Economic Area
chapter 6|13 pages
The Northern Dimension
part 2|76 pages
Bilateral EU neighbourhood relations
chapter 9|16 pages
EU–Russia relations in the Wider Europe
part 3|75 pages
Political, legal and security challenges
chapter 12|19 pages
The EU's differentiated integration frameworks
chapter 13|17 pages
The EU's enlargement and neighbourhood policy strategies
chapter 14|21 pages
The European Union and (frozen) conflicts in its neighbourhood
part 4|70 pages
Socio-economic and financial challenges