European Neighbourhood Policy

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Bettina Bruns, Dorit Happ, Helga Zichner

   Pages 1-21

3. Scale Up, Harry! Discursive Transition (and Continuity) in the EU’s ‘Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’ between 1995 and 2014

   • Frank Meyer

   Pages 23-45

4. Extra-territorial Migration Control from a Principal–Agent Perspective: Actors, Mechanisms and Delegation Costs

   • Lena Laube, Andreas Müller

   Pages 47-69

5. Democratizing EU Democracy Assistance? The EU’s Perspective on Civil Society

   • Micha Fiedlschuster

   Pages 71-91

6. Both In-Between and Out: National Sovereignty and Cross-Border Governmentality in Euro 2012 in Lviv

   • Andrey Makarychev, Alexandra Yatsyk

   Pages 93-114

7. The EaP Achievements in Ukraine and Georgia: Public Opinion vs. Institutional Changes

   • Tetiana Kostiuchenko, Liubov Akulenko

   Pages 115-138

8. EU Extra-territorialization and Securitization: What Does It Mean for Ukraine and Belarus?

   • Bettina Bruns, Dorit Happ

   Pages 139-159

9. The EU’s Education Policy Abroad: The ‘Power of Attraction’ and the Case of Moldova

   • Helga Zichner, Vladislav Saran

   Pages 161-183

10. The Western Balkans Inside, Outside and Between the European Union: About the Nexus Between Regional Cooperation, European Integration and Security Sector Reforms

    • Stefanie Dreiack

    Pages 185-205

11. Mapping European Cultural Actors: Addressing the Case of Belarus

    • Iryna Matsevich-Dukhan

    Pages 207-230

12. Back Matter

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This book assesses the instruments and measures geared towards determining the EU's relations with it's neighbours. These are channelled on the one hand by the enlargement policy focusing on the Western Balkans and on the other hand by the neighbourhood policy which will enable the integration of Central and Eastern European neighbouring countries without offering membership. Both of these policies have strong local and regional effects in the EU's neighbouring countries. However, little attention has been paid to the perceptions of and impact of these policies in the neighbouring countries themselves. 


By presenting theoretical contributions and empirical case studies drawing on qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork, this book provides new insights that will be of great interest for students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of Geography, Sociology, Political Science and European Studies.

• Borders
• Third States
• Human Geography
• Political Geography
• European Union
• EU external policy
• extra-territorialisation
• Western Balkans
• Moldova
• Ukraine
• Belarus
• Central Europe
• Eastern Europe
• area studies
• european union politics

“The main objective of the book is to assess the instruments and measures that relevant actors, mostly EU policy and decision makers, gear towards determining the Community’s relations with its neighbours in the Western Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe. … the book is an invaluable contribution. From the point of view of integration and security, both so much emphasised in this volume, European Neighbourhood Policy has seemingly brought along few tangible positive outcomes for the neighbours … .” (Márton Pete, Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, Vol. 66 (1), 2017)

• Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany

  Bettina Bruns, Dorit Happ, Helga Zichner

Bettina Bruns is Schumpeter Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. She is head of the project 'Within the Ring of Secure Neighbours'. Her research interests include borders, migration, informal economies and ethnographic methods. 


Dorit Happ is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. Her research interests cover EU foreign policy, regional development in Belarus and Ukraine, and migration flows and their implications for cultural and spatial identities. 


Helga Zichner is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. Her research interests focus regionally on Romania and Moldova and thematically on questions of trust and civil society in general, and the societal implications of Moldova's integration into EU structures.

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