Focusing on the EU's relations with its periphery, this paper takes issue both with persistent
'normative'conceptions of the EU's international role in the European Studies literature and …

This book advances a novel interpretation of EU governance. Its central claim is that the
EU's regulatory successes within-and increasingly beyond-its borders rest on the …

Abstract In May 2004, the European Union acquired not just ten new member states but
several new neighbours. At about the same time, it began to flesh out a European …

Abstract The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is modelled on the institutional and
procedural experience of the EU's eastward enlargement, although it explicitly excludes a …

The debate about the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has, in essence, been about
borders and bordering. Such departures could contribute—and often do so—to a rather fixed …

Recent years have seen the EU criticised for its naïve idealism, in particular in its failure to
counter Russia's increasingly assertive manoeuvres. While Russia is presented as an …

European institutions are either loathed or underestimated. This book analyses the role of
EU institutions in the area of European internal security. From Justice and Home Affairs, this …

The objective of spreading liberal democracy and the rule of law abroad has, particularly
since the September 11th attacks on the United States, entered the very heart of the foreign …

This paper highlights the ways in which the emerging models of migration management are
producing new geographies of the European Union's borders that complicate notions of a …

This contribution analyses the set of conditions that made the Union for the Mediterranean
(UfM) possible, highlighting the change vis-a-vis the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) …