Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Figures Map Introduction: Questioning the Foundations 1. A More Ambitious Partnership for the Neighbourhood? 2. The Supremacy of External Governance 3. Eu Partnership/Governance in Belarus: Towards Policy Legitimation? 4. Eu Partnership/Governance in Ukraine: A Deadlock Of Ambitions? 5. Eu Partnership/Governance in Moldova: An Unrequated ‘Partner’? Conclusion. The Eu and Its Eastern Neighbours: ‘Us-Ness’ vis-a-vis ‘Other-Ness’.
Elena Korosteleva is Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and Director of the Centre for European Studies, at Aberystwyth University, UK. She is the editor of The Eastern Partnership: a New Opportunity for the Neighbours?(2011); and a co-editor of The Quality of Democracy in Post-Communist Europe (2006); and Contemporary Belarus: Between Democracy and Dictatorship (2003), all published by Routledge.
"This is an important addition to the literature and ought to be on
the reading list of any study programme in this field." M.
Dangerfield, Department of History, Politics and War Studies,
University of Wolverhampton
SEER, 93, 2, APRIL 2015"One of the important features of this
monograph is that it is based on extensive original research
including surveys, focus groups, studies on school essays and
interviews... This monograph based on original research is a
valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on EU’s eastern
approaches and EU’s reach as a normative and civilian power well
beyond its neighbourhood. It advances the conceptualization of
‘partnership’ and ‘governance’ as features of (EU) foreign policy
while brining in the debate cognitive elements. Especially, the
primary material included in the book could prove useful to any
researcher on this topic. The way that interviews and opinions of
officials are incorporated into the main text makes the monograph
an interesting reading." Panagiota Manoli, University of the
Aegean, Greece Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 12:3,
463-465 "Elena Korosteleva’s book - The European Union and its
Eastern Neighbours: towards a more ambitious partnership? -
provides an excellent account of the EU’s relation with its Eastern
neighbours. It is a thorough investigation into the nature of this
relation by including extensive original research (i.e. surveys,
focus groups, interviews) mainly conducted in Belarus, Moldova,
Ukraine, Russia and Brussels. The book is clearly organised and
full of stimulating thoughts following the same rigurous writing
style and sharp inquiries of the most critical issues professor
Korosteleva used us with. It is not surprising her astute academic
endeavour has been rewarded. Many of the ideas which undergird this
monography have been included into the European Commission’s
official paper, the 2011 European Neighbourhood Policy Review.[…]
All in all, this book is a highly valuable addition to the
literature. It has also opened up new opportunities for further
research on the eastern dimension of the EU’s neighbourhood policy,
serving as an excellent source for both scholars and practitioners.
In spite of its critical nature, the book is arguably a plea in
favour of the EU to overhaul its approach towards the eastern
neighbourhood. Furthermore, the author has succeeded in providing
many answers as well as raising new questions regarding the
viability of such a neighbourhood project, but even more so for the
"precise nature of the EU as a transformative force (...) on the
international arena" (p. 127). Actually, its originality resides in
its strength to incorporate the extensive body of empirical
evidence collected into the appropriate theoretical framework." Dr.
Teodor Lucian Moga Eastern Journal of European Studies Volume 4,
Issue 2, December 2013
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