Proliferation of Privileged Partnerships between the European Union and its Neighbours

Sieglinde Gstöhl is Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges. David Phinnemore is Professor of European Politics and Dean of Education in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland. He is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

• 1. Introduction: privileged partnerships between the European Union and third states [Sieglinde Gstöhl and David Phinnemore] 2. Privileged partnerships: the partners countries' (institutional) perspective [Georges Baur] 3. The European Economic Area: a flexible but highly complex two-pillar system [Christian Frommelt] 4. Switzerland and the EU: current issues and new challenges under the Draft Institutional Framework Agreement [Christine Kaddous] 5. Unique, yet archetypal: relations between the European Union and Andorra, Monaco and San Marino [Francesco Maiani] 6. The institutional framework of the Eastern Partnership Association Agreements and the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas [Guillaume Van der Loo] 7. The EU–Turkey customs union: shortcomings and prospects for modernization [Özlem Terzi] 8. The EU's sectoral communities with neighbours: the case of the Energy Community [Dirk Buschle and Rozeta Karova] 9. UK withdrawal from EU membership: the quest for cake [David Phinnemore] 10. Conclusion: the EU and its privileged partnerships – Governance Power Europe? [Sieglinde Gstöhl and David Phinnemore]