The 2004 and 2007 enlargements pushed the EU's external border further east as well as closer to unstable areas in the western Balkans. With future enlargements unlikely in the short-term, the EU faces new challenges in securing stable relationships with these neighbouring countries, while not fostering false hopes of early accession.

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ANNEGRET BENDIEK Research Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, Germany CHRISTOPHER S. BROWNING Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. TOM CASIER Assistant Professor and Programme Director of the M.A. European Studies, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands LENARD J. COHEN Professor of International Studies, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada STEFAN GÄNZLE Visiting Assistant Professor (DAAD), Institute for European Studies and the Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada PERTTI JOENNIEMI Senior Research Fellow, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen, Denmark TETYANA KOSHMANOVA Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies, Western Michigan University, USA NORMA C. NOONAN Professor of Political Science and Director of the M.A. in Leadership Program, Augsburg College in Minneapolis, USA CHARLES C. PENTLAND Professor of Political Studies and Director of the Centre for International Relations, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada HELENA RYTOVUORI-APUNEN Senior Research Fellow, Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), University of Tampere, Finland ROBERT WEINER Professor of Political Science and Graduate Program Director of International Relations, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts/Boston, USA LYUBOV ZHYZNOMIRSKA Doctoral Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Canada.

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Introduction; J.DeBardeleben Part I: EU ENLARGEMENT AND THE NEW NEIGHBOURS The New Neighbours of the European Union: The Compelling Logic of Enlargement?; T.Casier The European Neighbourhood Policy and Why the Northern Dimension Matters; C.S.Browning & P.Joenniemi Part II: THE EU AND RUSSIA The EU's Policy towards Russia: Extending Governance beyond Borders?; S.Gänzle Public Attitudes toward EU-Russian Relations: Knowledge, Values, and Interests; J.DeBardeleben Regulatory Convergence and Global Partnership: Another Phase in EU-Russia Relations; H.Rytovuori-Apunen Russia and the New Europe: Strategies for an Evolving Relationship; N.Noonan Part III: THE EU, UKRAINE AND MOLDOVA Ukraine and the European Neighbourhood Policy; C.C.Pentland Security Concerns in the EU Neighbourhood: The Effects of EU Immigration and Asylum Policy for Ukraine; L.Zhyznomirska The Bologna Process: Exploring Mechanisms of European Enlargement in Ukraine; T.Koshmanova Whither Moldova: East or West?; R.Weiner PartIV: THE EU AND SOUTH EAST EUROPE The Europeanization of 'Defective Democracies' in the Western Balkans: Pre-Accession Challenges to Democratic Consolidation; L.J.Cohen The EU in South East Europe: Peace Consolidation and Differentiation; A.Bendiek From Petersberg to Pristina: ESDP Operations in South East Europe; C.C.Pentland Conclusion; J.DeBardeleben