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Contributors offer new approaches to the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy. While the main emphasis is on the empirical assessment of the impact that the ENP has had to-date and on the factors that have shaped its implementation, it also provides new theoretical and methodological perspectives on how to study this policy area.

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Introduction; S.Wolff & R.G.Whitman PART I: THE STUDY OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY European Union Normative Power in the European Neighbourhood Policy; I.Manners Identity Construction through the ENP; B.Tonra The ENP, Security and Democracy in the Context of the European Security Strategy; S.Biscop The ENP´s Strategic Conception and Design: Overstretching the Enlargement Template?; C.Gebhard PART II: MAKING SENSE OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY Lessons from the Balkans? The ENP as Conflict Management/Prevention; A.Penn Rodt & S.Wolff The ENP and Transatlantic Relations; S.Rynning and C.P.Jensen Explaining Russian Reactions to the European Neighbourhood Policy; H.Haukkala PART III: THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY IN PRACTICE The ENP and the EU´s Eastern Neighbours: Ukraine and Moldova as Testcases; G.Sasse The impact of the ENP on EU-North Africa relations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; F.Bicchi The ENP and the South Caucasus: Meeting Expectations?; N.Ghazaryan ENP and the Middle East; C.E.Jesús CONCLUSIONS: WHERE NEXT FOR THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ENP? The ENP in Future Perspective; A.Missiroli

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´This collection provides an excellent overview of the ENP´s main features and challenges.´ - Toby Vogel, European Voice ´an important source for students of EU external policies by providing a systematic background to the ENP and neighbouring countries.´ Journal of Common Market Studies ´this collection provides the reader with an extensive overview of the ENP and its weaknesses.´ Karen Smith, West European Politics.

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