The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy: Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy

This book analyses the revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) which entered into force in May 2011, thereby replacing its predecessor of 2003/2004. The edited volume provides a structured and comprehensive overview of the most recent developments in EU foreign policy (EUFP) towards the EU’s southern and eastern neighbourhood through the prism of continuity and change. By critically examining EU action and inaction in the framework of the 2011 ENP, it also puts the ENP's most recent review of 2015 in perspective. Topics covered include: conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues; the legal and institutional aspects of the revised ENP and the changes brought by the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty; and conflicts and crises in the EU’s neighbourhood, such as the Western Sahara conflict, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the South Caucasus conflicts and the crisis in Ukraine. The authors also focus on sectoral cooperation, analysing the changes brought by the revisedENP of 2011 in the domains of energy cooperation and migration. This volume will appeal to scholars and upper level students in EU/European Studies, International Relations, Political Science, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in the field.

Dimitris Bouris is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also Associate Research Fellow at the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the College of Europe (Natolin). He is the author of The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories: State-building without a State (2014) for which he was selected as Politics and International Relations author of the month for February 2014.

Tobias Schumacher is Chairholder of the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the College of Europe (Natolin), Poland. He is also an Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Studies (CES) at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) and in the first half of 2016 was a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.