Provides an updated and innovative approach to the EU's role as a security actor
Contributes to the mainly empirically-driven literature on the South Caucasus
Argues that security is a central element in the region's dynamics in the post-Cold War context

Autorentext

Licínia Simão is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Coimbra and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, Portugal. Her research interests include foreign policy analysis and security studies, European Union external action, and the former-Soviet space.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Chapter 1. European Security Community expansion.- Chapter 2. The Neighbourhood Policy and the expansion of the European Security Community.- Chapter 3. Competing security logics in the South Caucasus.- Chapter 4. Breaking isolation: the Armenian choice for Europe?.- Chapter 5. Azerbaijan's balancing act: what role for the EU?.- Chapter 6. Georgian options for Euro-Atlantic integration.- Conclusions.