European Union and Its Eastern Neighbourhood

Andriy Tyushka is Senior Research Fellow in the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the College of Europe in Natolin, Poland. He published widely on IR theory, European security and EU foreign policy. His latest book publication is the co-edited volume States, International Organizations, and Strategic Partnerships (Edward Elgar, 2019).Tobias Schumacher is Professor of International Relations and Chairholder of the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the College of Europe, Natolin campus (Warsaw) and Associate Professor in European Studies at the Department of Historical and Classical Studies (IHK) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. He is the lead editor of The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy (2018), and his articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of Common Market Studies, Geopolitics, Democratization, Mediterranean Politics, European Security, Contemporary Politics, Global Discourse, and others.

• PrefaceKathariná MathernováIntroduction: The European Union, its Eastern Neighbourhood and an Evolving Structured Engagement within and beyond the Eastern Partnership FrameworkTobias SchumacherPart I: The EU’s Eastern Partnership and Regional Dynamics: Enduring Issues and Contending Perspectives1. The European Union’s ‘Ideal Self’ in the Post-Soviet SpaceCristian Nitoiu2. Between the Eastern Partnership and Eurasian Integration: Explaining Post-Soviet Countries’ Engagement in (Competing) Region-Building ProjectsLaure Delcour3. "The transformative power of Europe" beyond enlargement: the EU’s performance in promoting democracy in its neighbourhoodTanja A. Börzel and Bidzina Lebanidze4. The Geopoliticisation of the EU’s Eastern PartnershipDavid Cadier5. The Unintended Consequences of a European Neighbourhood Policy without RussiaTom Casier6. Bringing "the political" back into European security: challenges to the EU’s ordering of the Eastern PartnershipLiciìnia SimaÞoPart II:The EU’s Bilateral Engagement with Eastern Neighbours: A Growing Menu of Choice7. State building and European integration in UkraineKataryna Wolczuk8. When Goliath meets Goliath: how Russia and the EU created a vicious circle of instability in MoldovaRyhor Nizhnikau9. The Politics of Flexibility: Exploring the Contested Statehood–EU Actorness Nexus in Georgia Madalina Dobrescu and Tobias Schumacher10. Armenia and Belarus: caught between the EU’s and Russia’s conditionalities? Alena Vieira and Syuzanna Vasilyan11. The European Union and Belarus: democracy promotion by technocratic means? Elena A. Korosteleva12. From ‘Unilateral’ to ‘Dialogical’: Determinants of EU–Azerbaijan Negotiations Eske van GilsPart III: Looking Backward: The EU, the Eastern Neighbours and the ‘Eastern Partnership’ a Decade Past13. Looking Backward: Deliverables and Drawbacks of the Eastern Partnership during 2009-2020Andriy Tyushka and Tobias SchumacherConclusion: The EU and its Eastern Neighbourhood – whither ‘Eastern Partnership’?Andriy TyushkaAnnexesAnnex 1. Content Analysing the Joint Declarations of the Eastern Partnership Summits in 2009-2017Annex 2. Studying EU-Eastern Neighbours Relations Within and Beyond the Eastern Partnership in 2009-2020: A Bibliometric Perspective