This article examines the nature and implications of the emerging EU–Russia competition in
their common neighbourhood. After analysing the two economic integration platforms that …

This concluding article assesses the past decade of international scholarship on the
European Union (EU) and normative power as represented by the contributions to the …

This book explores the EU's relations with its eastern neighbours. Based on extensive
original research–including surveys, focus-groups, a study of school essays and in-depth …

Scholars have characterized the EU as a normative power whose greatest asset is to be
able to shape conceptions of what is 'normal'in international affairs. Scholars have argued …

In spring 1994 I first heard Richard Whitman ask the question,'what is the international
identity of the European Union?'. The end of the Cold War, the Treaty on European Union …

In the context of our research, and particularly in the framework of the many courses,
seminars and lectures that we have been giving throughout the years on the ENP and its …

How does the E uropean U nion promote security beyond its borders? This article answers
this seemingly straightforward question by exploring how the EU works as security …

ABSTRACT The EU Global Strategy puts 'principled pragmatism'at the core of EU foreign
and security policy. This has also been promoted as away of closing the gap between talk …

Do the EU and NATO threaten Russian security? The book explores the rise of these
exclusive'inter-democratic'security institutions after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the …

EU policies towards the Southern Mediterranean after the Arab uprisings are predominantly
seen in the literature as marked by continuity with the past. This is attributed to the fact that …