External Governance as Security Community Building: The Limits and Potential of the European Neighbourhood Policy

by Pernille Rieker (Editor)

Overview

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was initially intended to create ‘a ring of friends surrounding the Union, from Morocco to Russia and the Black Sea’ (Prodi, 2002). Today, however, the ever-worsening security situation in the region clearly shows that the aim has not been achieved. With wars in Ukraine, Syria and Libya, the Union’s neighbourhood can therefore better be described as ‘a ring of fire’. Does this means that the policy has failed and that an alternative policy towards the EU’s neighbours is needed? Or should these developments be seen as temporary setbacks caused by external factors beyond EU control? By comparing the EU’s approach to its eastern and southern neighbours, this volume seeks to answer such overarching questions. The authors find that the EU still has a potential role to play in providing regional security, but that this role also risks being increasingly undermined if it does not increasingly take into account the broader geostrategic realities in both regions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137561688
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/28/2016
Series:	The European Union in International Affairs
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Pernille Rieker is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affaris (NUPI), Norway, and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Oslo. Her research interests are related to international and regional security, European integration and external governance as well as national foreign and security policy with a special focus on the Nordic countries and France. She has published widely on these issues.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction: The European Neighbourhood Policy: An instrument for security community-building - Pernille Rieker.- 2.Extending the EU’s Security Community amidst Conflict: The Case of Ukraine - Jozef Batora and Matej Navratil.- 3.The EU’s Eastern Partnership with Moldova: A ‘best-case’ scenario for EU security community-building? - Giselle Bosse and Dorina Baltag.- 4.Building a Security Community in the EU’s Neighbourhood? Experiences from Georgia - Ketevan Bolkvadze and Bidzina Lebanidze.- 5.Security Community-Building in Times of Crisis: Morocco, the ENP, and Practices of Mutual Responsiveness - Niklas Bremberg and Pernille Rieker.- 6.The EU Quest for a Security Community with the Southern Neighbours: EU-Tunisia relations - Assem Dandashly.- 7.Jordan, the European Neighbourhood Policy, and Commonalities of Interest: Building a Security Partnership rather than a Security Community - Peter Seeberg.- 8.Comparisons and Conclusions - Pernille Rieker

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This volume offers a unique perspective in examining the EU’s European Neighbourhood Policy as an instrument for building a regional security community. A particular strength of the book is its approach in using country case studies to offer a comparison of the security interrelationship with six of the EU’s southern and eastern neighbours. Its conclusions, on the risks that the EU faces in failing to play its full role in its region’s security, deserve to be read widely.” (Richard Whitman, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, UK)

“The European Neighbourhood Policy is the EU’s most challenging and demanding external policy, with far-reaching strategic and political implications. It is also a policy in crisis. This book provides an invaluable analysis and explanation of the ENP, and includes both a wealth of empirical data and a clear theoretical focus. It deserves to be read widely by both academics and practitioners.” (Adrian G.V. Hyde-Price, Professor of International Politics, Gothenburg University, Sweden)