Governing Europe's neighbourhood - Partners or periphery?

This volume, newly available in paperback, examines the role of the European Union in creating a system of governance involving the countries and regions of its new ‘neighbourhood’. Enlargement has functioned as one of the EU’s most effective foreign policy tools, yet the EU is rapidly approaching the limits of its capacity to accept new member states. It therefore must develop ways of extending and preserving the European zone of peace and stability that do not rely on the prospect of membership as a means of influencing the behaviour of non-member countries. A major step in this direction is the EU’s new European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The ENP aims to create a ring of ‘well-governed and friendly’ countries along the EU’s eastern, southeastern, and southern peripheries. This volume situates this policy in a broad, analytically-coherent framework, supported by a full range of ENP case studies, to explain whether the ENP represents a truly new approach to regional governance.

List of figures and tables List of contributors Acknowledgements PART I: The conceptual and empirical background 1. Governance theories, regional integration, and EU foreign policy - Michael E. Smith and Katja Weber 2. The EU and its neighbourhood: an overview - Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués PART II: The European Neighbourhood Policy in action 3. Shared values: democracy and human rights - Frank Schimmelfennig and Sylvia Maier 4. Political dialogue and security: the CFSP and ESDP - Michael E. Smith and Mark Webber 5. Economic and social development - Gergana Noutcheva and Michael Emerson 6. Trade and the internal market - Milada Anna Vachudova 7. Justice and Home Affairs: immigration and policing - John D. Occhipinti 8. Connecting the neighbourhood: energy and environment - Sandra Lavenex and Adam N. Stulberg 9. People-to-people: education and culture - Michelle Pace PART III: Alternative perspectives on the ENP 10. Wider Europe, transatlantic relations, and global governance - Michael Baun 11. The European Neighbourhood Policy: a comment on theory and policy - Ulrich Sedelmeier 12. Making a success of ENP: challenge and response - Michael Leigh Conclusion - ENP and external governance in theory and practice - Katja Weber, Michael E. Smith, and Michael Baun References Index