The European Neighbourhood Policy in Perspective : Context, Implementation and Impact

Contributors offer new approaches to the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy. While the main emphasis is on the empirical assessment of the impact that the ENP has had to-date and on the factors that have shaped its implementation, it also provides new theoretical and methodological perspectives on how to study this policy area.

Introduction; S.Wolff & R.G.Whitman PART I: THE STUDY OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY European Union Normative Power in the European Neighbourhood Policy; I.Manners Identity Construction through the ENP; B.Tonra The ENP, Security and Democracy in the Context of the European Security Strategy; S.Biscop The ENP''s Strategic Conception and Design: Overstretching the Enlargement Template?; C.Gebhard PART II: MAKING SENSE OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY Lessons from the Balkans? The ENP as Conflict Management/Prevention; A.Penn Rodt & S.Wolff The ENP and Transatlantic Relations; S.Rynning and C.P.Jensen Explaining Russian Reactions to the European Neighbourhood Policy; H.Haukkala PART III: THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY IN PRACTICE The ENP and the EU''s Eastern Neighbours: Ukraine and Moldova as Testcases; G.Sasse The impact of the ENP on EU-North Africa relations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; F.Bicchi The ENP and the South Caucasus: Meeting Expectations?; N.Ghazaryan ENP and the Middle East; C.E.Jesús CONCLUSIONS: WHERE NEXT FOR THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ENP? The ENP in Future Perspective; A.Missiroli