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This study aims to analyze the role of the European Union in international dispute settlement, focusing on the European Neighbourhood Policy. The study includes an analysis of the Article 8 of the Treaty on European Union, the position and placement of this provision in the European Union Treaties after the Lisbon Treat as well as the comparison of this new settlement's previous position of Article 8 of the TEU and its new reflections. The legal framework provides a broad perspective on the relationship of the Common Foreign and Security Policy with the European Neighbourhood Policy. This study will focus on: the reasons for the inclusion or not of this policy in the Common Foreign and Security Policy; the analysis whether the European Neighbourhood Policy has a common goal with the Common Foreign and Security Policy for resolving international conflicts; and it will also investigate the main aim of this policy, if it is the international or neighborhood disputes settlement, or conflict resolution is simply a random placement of this Policy. Furthermore, an important issue to be addressed is whether or not representing the European Neighbourhood Policy is an effective mechanism for resolving disputes, if there was an effective instrument in concrete conflict resolution presented to recent years. DOI:10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2p53

Introduction : the European neighbourhood policy in a comparative perspective / Sieglinde Gstöhl -- Mapping the European Union's neighbourhood relations : the European economic area as a prototype for the integration of EU neighbours / Sieglinde Gstöhl -- Differentiated integration in the Eeuropean economic area : what lessons can be drawn for the European neighbourhood policy? / Christian Frommelt -- Who can join the European economic area? / Georges Baur -- Challenges in exporting the internal market : lessons from the energy community / Dirk Buschle -- The northern dimension : a format for pragmatic cooperation with the EU's biggest neighbour / Peter Van Elsuwege -- EU-Turkey relations : customs Union and more... or less? / Tamás Szigetvári -- Switzerland's bilateral approach to European integration : a model for Ukraine? / René Schwok and Cenni Najy -- EU-Russia relations in the wider europe : from strategic partner to major competitor? / Irina Petrova -- Comparing the european union's policy towards the western Balkans and the South Caucasus / Syuzanna Vasilyan -- The effectiveness of institutional arrangements in the European Union's relations with its neighbours / Marc Franco -- The EU's differentiated integration frameworks : legislative approximation and lessons for the eastern partnership / Aaron Matta -- The EU's enlargement and neighbourhood policy strategies : the role of political conditionality / Sühal Semsit -- The European Union and (frozen) conflicts in its neighbourhood : the SAP and the ENP compared / Julija Brsakoska Bazerkoska -- European Union or Eurasian Union? : a dilemma for the eastern partnership countries / Ramunas Vilpisauskas -- Markets versus morals? : assessing EU arms exports to autocratic regimes in its closer and wider neighbourhood / Giselle Bosse -- A comparative analysis between pre-accession and ENP reforms in the agricultural sector of the EU neighbouring countries / Christos Kourtelis -- The eu's other neighbours : lessons for the European neighbourhood policy / Sieglinde Gstöhl

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has become a top issue on the EU agenda after the EU enlargement wave of 2004, completed in 2007. The question of efficiently managing the new borders of EU, by facing the new-fangled challenges related to security, combating trafficking, ensuring economic prosperity and environment protection has driven new and restructured EU mechanisms in order to manage the relations with its new neighbourhood - rather diverse in terms of economic and social welfare. Conditionality from the part of EU towards the ENP partner states has been an intricate issue even from the start. How committed can these countries be on the path of rough economic, political and social reforms, in the absence of a perspective of EU accession? If conditionality, as we know it from the pre-accession process of the former candidate states for example, is going to be a success or a failure in the case of the ENP states is still a matter of perception. This paper attempts to give an overview of different opinions upon the potential effect of the conditionality mechanism within the ENP. The victory or breakdown of conditionality within the ENP depends both on the commitment of the ENP partner states to the goals, values, concrete projects promoted through this policy and its consolidated initiatives (Eastern Partnership, Union for Mediterranean), but most of all on the capacity of the European Union to replace the traditional incentive of accession with a proper alternative, mostly in economic, financial, social and security terms. Keywords: European Neighbourhood Policy, conditionality, security, neighbours, cooperation, common values. (Romanian Journal of European Affairs / SWP)

"In implementing the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the European Union offers a deeper political and economic relationship to its neighbours--but without a promise of EU membership. The ENP is intended to be a strategic approach to the post-enlargement situation which redraws boundaries between the EU 'insiders' and the 'outsiders' on the EU's borders. This volume presents an empirical exploration of the ENP, in which the main emphasis is on an assessment of the impact the ENP has had so far and the factors that have shaped its implementation since 2003. The volume also provides a perspective on how to study this relatively new policy area. It contends that the ENP represents a distinctive challenge for scholars studying the European Union and that the development of a Structured relationship that embraces neighbouring states represents a 'coming of age' for the Union"--Provided by publisher.

Since attaining independence in 1991, Moldova has experienced complex relationships with its neighbours, including Russia and the EU. Under the European Neighbourhood Policy, it has enjoyed successes and endured difficulties in its relationship with the EU, including various forms of co-operation -- ranging from legal-institutional to cultural and geopolitical -- based on the perception that the two polities form a boundary around which specific politics revolve. Public perceptions and the rhetoric and actions of the elite reveal two main features of EU-Moldovan relations: the lack of political will in Moldova and the lack of commitment on the part of the EU, which in conjunction fail to provide the necessary incentives for the process of reform and the prospects of European engagement for Moldova. Adapted from the source document.

This paper offers an overview of the key research projects that have examined the various impacts of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The paper focuses on the impact of the ENP on trade, migration, innovation and institutional and cultural diversity, and social capital. The majority of empirical literature concerning the ENP has focused on trade. Migration has received attention to a lesser extent. There are a few studies on innovation in the ENP countries, and no studies explicitly examine the role of the ENP on the institutional environment, cultural diversity and social capital on innovation. In all these research projects, three key gaps can be identified which are most relevant for the SEARCH project. Firstly, most projects do not examine the effect of specific policy measures, but only give an overall analysis of the impact of all policies that have been implemented in a time period. Secondly, almost all studies focus on a national level in their analysis. Rarely is the subnational level considered. Thirdly, most of the reforms carried out due to the ENP are very recent, and most studies do not have data that is recent enough to evaluate the impact of these reforms. The specific gaps as identified in this paper can inform further empirical studies of the SEARCH project.