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“The South Caucasus is a critical test-case of policies aiming to develop a liberal security community in a troubled European periphery. In clear and accessible prose, Licínia Simão combines scholarly and practitioner insights with a host of interviews with the relevant actors to unpack the ambiguous progress of the European Union’s Neighbourhood Policy in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. With concision and balance Simão captures the unfolding contradictions between the European Union’s vision of itself as a security community, and an uncertain fit with South Caucasian security concerns, variable levels of local interest and a rival project in Russian power.” (Laurence Broers, SOAS University of London, UK) “Licinia Simão’s book offers a welcome and timely contribution to our understanding of the European Neighbourhood Policy towards the South Caucasus. Empirically rich and conceptually refreshing, it sheds light on the differing geostrategic aspirations of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia and corresponding conflict dynamics in a highly volatile region. By addressing the interaction and power of competing regional ordering mechanisms, and by systematically identifying contradictions of the ENP’s conceptualisation of regional security, it demonstrates lucidly the difficulties the EU faces in its ambition to expand (notions of) a European security community beyond its borders.” (Tobias Schumacher, College of Europe, Natolin, Poland) This book addresses the potential and limitations of the European Union Neighbourhood Policy in sustaining the expansion of the European security community towards the South Caucasus. The Caucasus’ complex regional security dynamics are a hard test for regional security community building and showcase both the challenges of security provision through liberal reforms and integration and of the interaction between security communities and balance of power. The author begins by conceptualizing security community expansion and then considers the ENP through this perspective, before moving on to individual case studies on Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The book will appeal to both scholars and practitioners interested in European security, the European Union external action, and the post-Soviet space.

EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY (PROGRAM) --- EU--CAUCASUS, SOUTH

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EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY (PROGRAM) --- EU--BELARUS --- EU--MOLDOVA --- EU--UKRAINE

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"This book examines the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in the context of internal functions performed with regards to the European Union (EU) political system and its key actors. It argues that the ENP has been formulated not only in reaction to external challenges and threats, but also in response to EU internal legitimacy needs at systemic, institutional and actor level. Looking beyond governance approaches and the power of norms, this book follows a sociological approach to the politics of legitimation. Using Bourdieu's field theory, it bridges the rationalist-constructivist divide inherent in much of the ENP scholarship. While analysing articulations of EU institutions in terms of narrative production, reproduction and reconstruction, it sheds valuable light on where the conflicting goals, ambiguity and incoherence stem from. By highlighting third countries' responses and usages of ENP narratives for domestic and international legitimacy-seeking, the book calls for a more outside-in perspective on EU foreign policy. With the European integration project being increasingly contested, both internally and externally, this book provides a timely focus on the topic of legitimation and delegitimation dynamics with regards to EU foreign policy. This book is of key interest to scholars and students of European integration, EU Foreign Policy, and more broadly EU Studies and International Relations"--

European Neighbourhood Policy (Program) --- European Union countries --- Foreign relations.

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European Union. --- European Neighbourhood Policy (Program). --- Eastern Partnership. --- European Union countries --- Europe, Eastern --- Foreign relations

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This edited volume addresses the foreign policies of the European Union, Russia and Turkey, and how their interests and actions impact the stability of their shared neighbourhood (the Black and Caspian Seas, the Mediterranean and the Middle East). Their geopolitical strategies determine the overall peace and prosperity in this security complex characterised by fast-changing political and social dynamics, and geostrategic competition. By addressing issues of mutual perceptions, security provisions and political and economic interaction, this volume provides a valuable analysis of pan-regional dynamics and a conceptualisation of competition and cooperation.

EU--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- EU--TURKEY --- RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--FOREIGN RELATIONS--TURKEY --- TURKEY--FOREIGN RELATIONS--RUSSIA (FEDERATION) --- EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY (PROGRAM)