Table Of ContentThe Revised European Neighbourhood Policy
Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy
Edited by
Dimitris Bouris and Tobias Schumacher
The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy
‘At a moment when the EU is once again reviewing its signature European
Neighbourhood Policy, this book is instructive in assessing the last
revision to this strategy in 2011. Bouris and Schumacher have assembled
an interestingly eclectic mix of contributions, many of which offer useful
perspectives somewhat different from standard accounts of EU foreign
policy. The volume sheds light on why the promised ENP upgrade went
awry and failed to divert the crises with which the EU now grapples to its
east and south.’ – Richard Youngs, Professor of International Relations,
University of Warwick, UK
‘This expansive set of chapters clarifies the urgency and complexity
involved in the EU’s revised policy for engagement with the Union’s
southern and eastern neighborhoods. Conceptually sophisticated and
empirically rich, the book tackles the ontological ambivalence, normative
tensions, and operational challenges in the EU’s Revised ENP, leaving
no doubt about the inextricable, reflexive linkages between the future of
the EU and developments in countries to the south and east.’ – Elizabeth
H. Prodromou, Visiting Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution, The
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, USA
‘Dimitris Bouris’ and Tobias Schumacher’s book will become an indispens-
able read in the study of the ENP. It provides a major new critical synthesis
of the Union’s relations with its immediate neighbours in the framework
of the revised ENP of 2011. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to
understand the ENP’s subsequent reviews and thus the EU’s evolving foreign
policy towards its ‘near abroad’.’ – Sharon Pardo, Jean Monnet Chair ad
personam— Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
‘The neighbourhood is crucial to the future of the EU, in terms of not only
security, but also and especially governance, sustainable development and
social equality. The authors in this volume draw on their unique expertise
to unpack the key issues and highlight what has changed and what needs
changing in the European stance.’ – Federica Bicchi, Associate Professor
in International Relations of Europe, The London School of Economics
and Political Science, UK
Dimitris Bouris • Tobias Schumacher
Editors
The Revised
European
Neighbourhood
Policy
Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy
Editors
Dimitris Bouris Tobias Schumacher
Department of Political Science European Neighbourhood Policy Chair
University of Amsterdam College of Europe (Natolin)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Warsaw, Poland
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A
cknowledgements
We are grateful and indebted to several people for their invaluable con-
tribution to this volume. First of all, we would like to thank the authors,
not only for their contributions but also for having been patient and for
having replied to our numerous messages and for addressing all of our
comments throughout the process of turning individual drafts into one
manuscript. Editing can be quite a laborious task and sometimes, so they
say, even challenge long-established relations with colleagues and friends
as a result of the many critical and seemingly endless demands of the edi-
tors. Fortunately, our experience was different as our contributors did not
mind our repeated queries and requests for revisions and updates, thus
turning this process into a truly memorable experience. Also, we would
like to thank Palgrave Macmillan for believing in this project and for their
valuable input.
This volume grows out of several PhD Summer Schools that have been
organised annually by the ENP Chair of the College of Europe, Natolin
campus (Warsaw) throughout the last years and that have been devoted to
the study of the multi-faceted dimensions of the ENP—original and revised.
We thank sincerely all colleagues—some represented in this volume—who
have volunteered to come to the Natolin campus of the College of Europe
and offered inspiring talks and lectures to the many PhD students who par-
ticipated in the various editions of the school. Equally, several institutions
and consortia have collaborated and contributed to its success. We are
grateful for the institutional and financial support, generously provided by
the College of Europe, Natolin campus (Warsaw), the Konrad Adenauer
Stiftung (Israel Office), and the Centre for the Study of European Politics
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and Society at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The European
Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), the ECPR Standing Group
on the European Union (ECPR-SGEU), the Lisboan Erasmus Academic
Network, and the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
have been enthusiastically supporting the initial idea back in 2009–2010
of setting up an annual PhD summer school, then dedicated more gen-
erally to the EU’s role in the world, and provided crucial seed funding.
Also, after the school has ‘travelled’ to the Natolin campus of the College
of Europe and shifted its focus on to the study of the ENP and the EU’s
neighbourhoods, they have remained committed partners ever since and
we are indebted to them. Many thanks go also to the research project
‘BORDERLANDS: Boundaries, Governance, and Power in the European
Union’s Relations with North Africa and the Middle East’ at the European
University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, and
to the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Palestinian Territories Office). Finally,
we are also thankful to Maja Olszewska for her professional and cheerful
assistance and her important contribution to the works of the ENP Chair.
The Vice-Rector of the College of Europe, Natolin campus (Warsaw),
Ms. Ewa Ośniecka-Tamecka, deserves particular mention for her relentless
support of the ENP Chair, its many activities and thus its annual ENP PhD
Summer School, the pedagogical value of which is probably best testified
through the generous feedback of its participants. To see that many of
them have become aspiring academics and are contributing impressively to
the scholarship on EU foreign policy in general and the ENP and the EU’s
neighbourhoods in particular fills us with joy and pride. We dedicate this
volume to them and all participants of past ENP PhD Summer Schools,
as well as to future generations of students, hoping that it contributes to
advancing their interest in the study of the many intricacies of the EU’s
ever evolving relationship with its ‘near abroad’.
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ontents
1 The 2011 Revised European Neighbourhood Policy:
Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy 1
Tobias Schumacher and Dimitris Bouris
Introduction 1
Continuity and Change in Researching the ENP 3
Continuity and Change: Conceptual Considerations 5
One Neighbourhood or Several? 10
Continuity and Change in the Revised ENP 13
Structure of the Volume 19
Notes 26
References 26
Part I The Revised European Neighbourhood
Policy: Methodological, Conceptual and
Empirical Challenges 35
2 Research Design in the Study of the European
Neighbourhood Policy 37
Theofanis Exadaktylos and Kennet Lynggaard
Introduction, Motivation and Argument 37
Review of Research Design in ENP 39
Current Challenges to Research Design in ENP Research 46
Addressing Research Challenges in This Volume 48
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Future Agendas and Concluding Remarks 50
References 51
3 Deconstructing the ‘Ideal Power Europe’ Meta-Narrative
in the European Neighbourhood Policy 57
Münevver Cebeci
Introduction 57
The EU as a Postmodern/Post-Sovereign Actor
and the Revised ENP 58
The EU as Leading by Virtuous Example
and the Revised ENP 60
The EU as a Normative Power in the Eastern
and Southern Neighbourhood 64
Boundaries, Security and Governmentality
in the Revised European Neighbourhood Policy 67
Conclusions 69
Notes 70
References 72
4 The EU’s Regional Normative Hegemony Encounters Hard
Realities: The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy
and the Ring of Fire 77
Hiski Haukkala
Introduction 77
The Foundations and Contents of the EU’s
Normative Hegemony in Europe 79
Enter the Hard Realities 87
Conclusions 89
References 92
Part II Legal and Institutional Aspects of the Revised
European Neighbourhood Policy 95
5 Continuity and Change in the Legal Relations Between
the EU and Its Neighbours: A Result of Path Dependency
and Spill-over Effects 97
Peter Van Elsuwege and Guillaume Van der Loo
Introduction 97
CONTENTS ix
The New Generation of Association Agreements with the
Eastern Partnership Countries 99
A New Legal Framework for Economic Integration
with the Mediterranean Neighbours 107
The Legal Framework of Sectoral Cooperation
with ENP Countries: Spill-over Effects 108
Conclusions 111
Notes 112
References 114
6 The EEAS and the Revised European Neighbourhood
Policy: What Institutional Balance? 117
Hrant Kostanyan
Introduction 117
Framing Change or Maintaining Institutional Balance After
the EEAS 120
The EEAS and the MS in the Revised ENP 122
The EEAS and the Commission in the Revised ENP 127
Conclusions 130
Notes 131
References 132
7 The European Parliament and the Revised European
Neighbourhood Policy 135
Joanna Kaminska
Introduction 135
Old Actors, New Powers? 139
The New Role of Parliamentary Diplomacy: EuroNest
and PA-UfM 143
The EP and the European Neighbourhood Instrument 145
The EP and the Cox-Kwasniewski Mission to Ukraine 147
Conclusions 149
Notes 151
References 151
Part III The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy,
Conflicts and Crises in the Neighbourhood 155
