Theorizing the European neighbourhood policy

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword: the 2015 review of the European Neighbourhood Policy -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Theoretical approaches to the European Neighbourhood Policy -- Part I Rationalism vs. constructivism: inside-out and outside-in -- 2 Rationalist and constructivist approaches to the European Neighbourhood Policy: a growing prevalence of interests over identity? -- 3 Rational institutionalism, constructivism or both? A spatial econometric approach to measuring the impact of incentives and socialization in the European Neighbourhood Policy -- 4 The Russian Federation's posture towards the European Neighbourhood Policy: a neoclassical realist explanation -- 5 Russia's perception of the European Neighbourhood Policy: a constructivist explanation -- Part II Beyond EU-centrism: neglected (f)actors -- 6 The role of bounded rationality in explaining the European Neighbourhood Policy: the Eastern dimension -- 7 A structural foreign policy perspective on the European Neighbourhood Policy -- 8 Empowerment of domestic stakeholders: from outcome-orientedto process-oriented Europeanization in the ENP countries -- 9 The practice of EU power relations with international organizations in the neighbourhood: imperator or primus inter pares? -- Part III The EU and the other(s): conflict or cooperation? -- 10 Between the Eastern Partnership and the Eurasian Economic Union: competing region-building projects in the 'common neighbourhood' -- 11 Turning a problem into a solution? The potential of interregionalism between the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union -- 12 'The political' and the ENP: rethinking EU relations with the Eastern region