European Union, Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood

Jackie Gower is a Teaching Fellow at King’s College London, UK.Graham Timmins is a specialist in German and European politics. His publications include Building a Bigger Europe: EU and NATO Enlargement in Comparative Perspective, co-authored with Martin A. Smith (Ashgate, 2000), Uncertain Europe: Building a New European Security Order, co-edited with Martin A. Smith (2001), and Russia and Europe in the Twenty-First Century: An Uneasy Partnership, co-edited with Jackie Gower (Anthem, 2007). He was awarded the honorary title of Jean Monnet Professor in European Integration Studies by the European Commission in 2002.

• 1. Introduction: The European Union, Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood Jackie Gower and Graham Timmins 2. Competing Rationalities: Russia, the EU and the ‘Shared Neighbourhood’ Derek Averre 3. EU Governance and the European Neighbourhood Policy: A Framework for Analysis Stefan Gänzle 4. The Contribution of the Visegrad Group to the European Union’s ‘Eastern’ Policy: Rhetoric or Reality? Martin Dangerfield 5. Lost in Translation? Why the EU has Failed to Influence Russia’s Development Hiski Haukkala 6. ‘Bashing about Rights’? Russia and the ‘New’ EU States on Human Rights and Democracy Promotion Rick Fawn 7. Power without Influence? The EU and Trade Disputes with Russia Tuomas Forsberg and Antti Seppo 8. Diversionary Role of the Georgia–Russia Conflict: International Constraints and Domestic Appeal Mikhail Filippov