Enlarged EU – Enlarged Neighbourhood

The Editors: Nicolas Hayoz is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).Leszek Jesień is Professor at the Tischner European University, Krakow, Poland. He holds the chair for European Integration.Wim van Meurs is Associate Professor in contemporary European history and politics for Political Science, Nijmegen University, Netherlands.

• Contents: Nicolas Hayoz/Leszek Jesień/Wim van Meurs: Introduction – Antoinette Primatarova: In Search of Two Distinct Tracks for Non-EU Europe and the European Neighbourhood – Nicolas Hayoz/Franz Kehl/Stephan Kuster: The Potential Flexibility of Deliberate Ambiguity. The EU’s Relations with the Regimes in its ‘Eastern Neighbourhood’ – Wim van Meurs: Rethinking the Balkans. Incongruities of State and Nation Building, Regional Stabilisation and European Integration – Galina Mikhaleva: The European Union and Russian Transformation – Alexander Sergunin: Kaliningrad: An Exclave or Pilot Region? – Olexiy Haran/Oleksandr Sushko: More than Neighbors. A search for a new paradigm of relations between the EU and Ukraine – Vyachaslau Paznyak: Belarus in the Geopolitics of the «New Near East»: An ‘Independent Variable’? – Leszek Jesień: Looking Eastwards. EU’s relations with its neighbours after enlargement – Eiki Berg: Prioritizing the East in Estonia: Chances to Become a Good Advocate, Honest Broker or Reliable Supervisor? – Krassimir Y. Nikolov: The European Neighbourhood Policy and Bulgaria - Challenges and Opportunities – Romana Vlahutin: From a Border Land to a Cross-border State – Othon Anastasakis: Democratic Transition in Serbia and the Road to Europe; Two Steps Forward, One Step Back – Christophe Solioz: Bosnia and Herzegovina between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: From Intervention towards Integration.