European Neighbourhood Policy: Geopolitics Between Integration and Security (New Geographies of Europe)

This book assesses the instruments and measures geared towards determining the EU's relations with it's neighbours. These are channelled on the one hand by the enlargement policy focusing on the Western Balkans and on the other hand by the neighbourhood policy which will enable the integration of Central and Eastern European neighbouring countries without offering membership. Both of these policies have strong local and regional effects in the EU's neighbouring countries. However, little attention has been paid to the perceptions of and impact of these policies in the neighbouring countries themselves. 

By presenting theoretical contributions and empirical case studies drawing on qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork, this book provides new insights that will be of great interest for students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of Geography, Sociology, Political Science and European Studies.

Bettina Bruns is Schumpeter Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. She is head of the project 'Within the Ring of Secure Neighbours'. Her research interests include borders, migration, informal economies and ethnographic methods. 

Dorit Happ is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. Her research interests cover EU foreign policy, regional development in Belarus and Ukraine, and migration flows and their implications for cultural and spatial identities. 

Helga Zichner is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. Her research interests focus regionally on Romania and Moldova and thematically on questions of trust and civil society in general, and the societal implications of Moldova's integration into EU structures.