This book provides an analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy by focusing on the impact of norms of justice and home affairs on EU external relations. Drawing on the literature of 'new governance' it designs a framework for analysis which clarifies the contents, tools and processes of the external dimension of EU justice and home affairs.

Autorentext
THIERRY BALZACQ is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Namur and Research Director at the University of Louvain (CECRI), Belgium. He is also the Co-Director of the EU Justice and Home Affairs research programme at the Centre of European Studies at Sciences Po Paris. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies , European Journal of International Relations , Security Dialogue , International Review of Sociology , Review of International Studies , and Culture and Conflicts .

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The Frontiers of Governance: Understanding the External Dimension of EU Justice and Home Affairs; T.Balzacq PART I: RECASTING INSTITUTIONS The Genesis of the European Neighbourhood Policy: Alternative Narratives, Bureaucratic Competitions; J.Jeandesboz ENP and EMP: The Geopolitics of 'Enlargement Lite'; A.Hadfield PART II: REFRAMING GOVERNANCE The EU as a Rule of Law Promoter in the ENP; N.Wichmann The ENP and Political Conditionality: Double Standard in EU Democracy Promotion?; E.Baracani The Mediterranean Dimension of EU's Internal Security; S.Wolff PART III: REDRAWING LINES The ENP and Security: Creating New Dividing Lines in Europe?; R.Zaiotti Very Remote Control: Policing the Outer Perimeter of the Eastern Neighbourhood; I.Gatev 'Values vs. Security'?: A Human Security Perspective on the ENP; S.Leonard