Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy

Sieglinde Gstöhl is Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. She has been full-time professor at the College since 2005. From 1999-2005 she was Assistant Professor of International Relations at Humboldt University Berlin. She holds a PhD and an MA in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva as well as a degree in Public Affairs from the University of St. Gallen. She was, inter alia, a research fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute and at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Simon Schunz is Professor in the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges. He previously worked, inter alia, for DG Research and Innovation of the European Commission, where he was in charge of the social sciences research on the EU as a global actor, including its neighbourhood policies, and the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), where he continues to lecture.

• Foreword: The 2015 Review of the European Neighbourhood Policy Introduction 1. Theoretical Approaches to the European Neighbourhood Policy Part I: Rationalism vs. Constructivism: Inside-out and Outside-in2. Rationalist and Constructivist Approaches to the European Neighbourhood Policy: A Growing Prevalence of Interests over Identity? 3. Rational Institutionalism, Constructivism or Both? A Spatial Econometric Approach to Measuring the Impact of Incentives and Socialization in the European Neighbourhood Policy 4. The Russian Federation’s Posture towards the European Neighbourhood Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation 5. Russia’s Perception of the European Neighbourhood Policy: A Constructivist Explanation Part II: Beyond EU-Centrism: Neglected (F)actors6. The Role of Bounded Rationality in Explaining the European Neighbourhood Policy: The Eastern Dimension 7. A Structural Foreign Policy Perspective on the European Neighbourhood Policy 8. Empowerment of Domestic Stakeholders: From Outcome-oriented to Process-oriented Europeanization in the ENP Countries 9. The Practice of EU Power Relations with International Organizations in the Neighbourhood: Imperator or Primus Inter Pares? Part III: The EU and the Other(s): Conflict or Cooperation?10. Between the Eastern Partnership and the Eurasian Economic Union: Competing Region-building Projects in the ‘Common Neighbourhood’ 11. Turning a Problem into a Solution? The Potential of Interregionalism between the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union 12. ‘The Political’ and the ENP: Rethinking EU Relations with the Eastern Region13. Proactive Cosmopolitanism, Proactive Governmentality? Secessionist Conflicts and EU Democracy Promotion Conclusion 14. Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy – Towards a Research Programme

"The volume is a very successful example of an eclectic perspective which tackles a wide range of aspects of the ENP, but is also unified by the larger finding that this policy has been largely EU-centric, which in turn, has hindered the EU’s ability to influence developments in the neighbourhood... the volume is an important breakthrough in the study of the EU’s approach towards its neighbours."Cristian NITOIU, Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University, Eastern Journal for European Studies