There is a rich body of theorizing on the diffusion of democracy across space and time.
There is also an emerging scholarship on authoritarian diffusion. The dynamics of the …

The EU's relations with its eastern and southern neighbours have never attracted as much
attention as in recent years. The outbreak of what was prematurely called the 'Arab Spring'in …

This paper argues that effective cross-border cooperation (CBC) networks closely interrelate
with the building of 'trust'between actors. The aim is to contribute to the CBC literature by …

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, assistance to civil society has been at the forefront of the
European Union's (EU) strategy in its post-Soviet Eastern neighbourhood. The literature on …

In the life cycle of cross‐border cooperation programmes, their performance is assessed
according to a European Commission methodology, focusing mainly on relevance …

This chapter aims to reveal the EU's governmentality in its neighbourhood through a
poststructuralist analysis of its foreign policy in general and the revised ENP, in particular. Its …

EU–Russia relations have often been considered in scholarship to be governed by the
dichotomy between conflict and cooperation. Cooperation has often coexisted or overlapped …

This paper studies the role of the European Union (EU) in supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and intersex (LGBTI) communities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) …

This chapter focuses on the strengthened powers of the European Parliament (EP) in EU
foreign policy matters after the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty. It analyses both formal and …

Between the years 1989 and 1991 the European equilibrium inherited from the Cold War,
with in the West the liberal-capitalistic democracies and in the East, separated by the Iron …