Responses to the ‘Arabellions’

Tanja A. Börzel is Professor of Political Science and holds the Chair for European Integration at the Otto-Suhr-Institut of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She is co-coordinator of the Research College 'The Transformative Power of Europe', and directs the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 'Europe and its Citizens'.Assem Dandashly is a lecturer in European Public Policy in the Department of Political Science at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Prior to that, he was a Research Fellow at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe", Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (2012) from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Thomas Risse is Professor of International Politics at the Otto Suhr Institut of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, where he is co-coordinator of the Research College 'The Transformative Power of Europe', and coordinator of the Collaborative Research Center 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood'.

• 1. Responses to the ‘Arabellions’: The EU in Comparative Perspective — Introduction 2. Institutional Governance of European Neighbourhood Policy in the Wake of the Arab Spring 3. The EU Response to Regime Change in the Wake of the Arab Revolt: Differential Implementation 4. A Pragmatic Actor — The US Response to the Arab Uprisings 5. Russia and the Arab Spring: Supporting the Counter-Revolution 6. Turkish Foreign Policy in a Changing Arab World: Rise and Fall of a Regional Actor? 7. Comparative Assessment of Israel’s Foreign Policy Response to the ‘Arab Spring’ 8. The EU, External Actors, and the Arabellions: Much Ado About (Almost) Nothing — Conclusion