This book assesses the instruments and measures geared towards determining the EU's relations with it's neighbours. These are channelled on the one hand by the enlargement policy focusing on the Western Balkans and on the other hand by the neighbourhood policy which will enable the integration of Central and Eastern European neighbouring countries without offering membership. Both of these policies have strong local and regional effects in the EU's neighbouring countries. However, little attention has been paid to the perceptions of and impact of these policies in the neighbouring countries themselves.
By presenting theoretical contributions and empirical case studies drawing on qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork, this book provides new insights that will be of great interest for students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of Geography, Sociology, Political Science and European Studies.

The main objective of the book is to assess the instruments and measures that relevant actors, mostly EU policy and decision makers, gear towards determining the Community's relations with its neighbours in the Western Balkans and Central and Eastern Europe. the book is an invaluable contribution. From the point of view of integration and security, both so much emphasised in this volume, European Neighbourhood Policy has seemingly brought along few tangible positive outcomes for the neighbours . (Márton Pete, Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, Vol. 66 (1), 2017)

Autorentext
Bettina Bruns is Schumpeter Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. She is head of the project 'Within the Ring of Secure Neighbours'. Her research interests include borders, migration, informal economies and ethnographic methods.
Dorit Happ is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. Her research interests cover EU foreign policy, regional development in Belarus and Ukraine, and migration flows and their implications for cultural and spatial identities.
Helga Zichner is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany. Her research interests focus regionally on Romania and Moldova and thematically on questions of trust and civil society in general, and the societal implications of Moldova's integration into EU structures.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction; Bettina Bruns, Dorit Happ and Helga Zichner.- Chapter 2. Scale Up, Harry! Discursive Transition (and Continuity) in the EU's 'Area of Freedom, Security and Justice' between 1995 and 2014; Frank Meyer.- Chapter 3. Extra-Territorial Migration Control from a Principal-Agent Perspective: Actors, Mechanisms and Delegation Costs; Lena Laube and Andreas Müller.- Chapter 4. Democratizing EU Democracy Assistance? The EU's Perspective on Civil Society; Micha Fiedlschuster.- Chapter 5. Both In-Between and Out: National Sovereignty and Cross-Border Governmentality in the Euro 2012 in Lviv; Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk.- Chapter 6. The EaP Achievements in Ukraine and Georgia: Public Opinion vs. Institutional Changes; Tetiana Kostiuchenko and Liubov Akulenko.- Chapter 7. The EU's Extra-Territorialization and Securitization: What Does it Mean for Ukraine and Belarus?; Bettina Bruns and Dorit Happ.- Chapter 8. The EU's Education Policy Abroad: The 'Power of Attraction' and the Case of Moldova; Helga Zichner and Vladislav Saran.- Chapter 9. The Western Balkan Inside, Outside and Between the European Union: About the Nexus between Regional Cooperation, European Integration and Security Sector Reforms; Stefanie Dreiack.- Chapter 10. Mapping European Cultural Actors: Addressing the Case of Belarus; Iryna Matsevich-Dukhan.