ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the EU’s most important foreign policy instrument, provided by leading experts in the field.

Coherently structured and adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this handbook covers the most important themes, developments and dynamics in the EU’s neighbourhood policy framework through a series of cutting-edge contributions. With chapters from a substantial number of scholars who have been influential in shaping the study of the ENP, this handbook serves to encourage debates which will hopefully produce more conceptual as well as neighbourhood-specific perspectives leading to enriching future studies on the EU’s policies towards its neighbourhood.

It will be a key reference point both for advanced-level students, scholars and professionals developing knowledge in the fields of EU/European Studies, European Foreign Policy Analysis, Area studies, EU law, and more broadly in political economy, political science, comparative politics and international relations.

part |13 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|11 pages

The European Neighbourhood Policy

The challenge of demarcating a complex and contested field of study

part I|101 pages

Conceptual, theoretical and legal approaches in the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy

chapter 2|11 pages

Beyond enlargement

Conceptualizing the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy

chapter 5|10 pages

Power and leadership in the European neighbourhood

Contending role concepts

part II|69 pages

The EU and its neighbourhood

part IV|121 pages

Bilateralism, region-building and conflict management in the European Neighbourhood Policy

chapter 25|11 pages

Ukraine in the European Neighbourhood Policy

A paradoxical partner

chapter 27|10 pages

The European Neighbourhood Policy and Moldova

A resilient oligarchic system wedged between the EU and Russia

chapter 30|11 pages

EU–Mashreq relations

Differentiation, conditionality and security

chapter 32|10 pages

Libya and Syria

At the crossroads of European Neighbourhood Policy and EU crisis management

part V|63 pages

The European Neighbourhood Policy and sectoral cooperation

part VI|73 pages

The European Neighbourhood Policy and the promotion of EU norms and values

part VII|36 pages

The European Neighbourhood Policy and future lines of inquiry

chapter 45|11 pages

The neighbours of the EU’s neighbours

Overcoming geographical silos

chapter 46|10 pages

The European Neighbourhood Policy and the CFSP/CSDP

From the European Security Strategy to the Global Strategy