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International audience ; Officially launched in March 2003 by a communication from the European Commission, the European neighbourhood policy (ENP) officially deals with the relations between the European Union and its geographical and political contiguities. Set up within the Community arenas, and more specifically by the professionals of the management of Community external relations, the ENP is characterised by the integration of a discourse on threats and dangers that influences the way the relations with the neighbours are handled, and places the management of insecurities at the heart of its priorities. We look at this apparent paradox by providing a reconstruction of the genesis of the neighbourhood policy, that puts into relation the authorised discourses produced on the issue of the neighbourhood since January 2002, and the uses of these discourses in the practices of the social agents tasked with the setting up of the ENP. ; Officiellement lancée par une communication de la Commission européenne en mars 2003, la PEV se propose de traiter des relations entre l'UE et l'ensemble des espaces géographiques et politiques qui lui sont contigus. Elaborée principalement au sein des arènes communautaires, et notamment par les professionnels de la gestion des relations extérieures communautaires, elle entérine pourtant l'intégration d'un discours sur la menace dans la conduite des relations avec les pays du voisinage, et place la gestion des insécurités au cour de ses priorités. Nous nous proposons d'explorer ce paradoxe apparent au travers d'une reconstruction de la genèse de la politique de voisinage, qui met en relation les discours autorisés produits sur le voisinage depuis janvier 2002, et les usages de ces discours dans les pratiques des agents chargés de l'élaboration de la PEV.

A review essay covering books by 1) Karen Henderson and Carol Weaver (Eds.), The Black Sea region and EU Policy -- the challenge of divergent agendas (2010), 2) Richard Whitman and Stefan Wolff (Eds.), The European neighbourhood policy in perspective -- context, implementation and impact (2010), and 3) Nicole Wichmann, Rule of law promotion in the European neighbourhood policy -- normative or strategic power Europe? (2010).

Die Studie untersucht den Einfluss von EU-Mitgliedsstaaten auf die Europäische Nachbarschaftspolitik. Dabei analysiert die Autorin zunächst die europäische und regionale Identität der ausgewählten Länder: Deutschland, Frankreich und Polen. Anschließend liegt der Fokus auf deren Regionalkonzepten – der Europäischen Ostpolitik Deutschlands, der Mittelmeerunion Frankreichs und der Östlichen Partnerschaft Polens – und auf den Interaktionsformen dieser Staaten während den europäischen Verhandlungen im Zeitraum von 2006 bis 2009.Die abschließende Analyse der Effekte dieser Debatte auf die ENP ist eingebettet in den größeren europäischen Kontext mit den aktuellen Fragen nach einer Erweiterung und Vertiefung der EU, den Modellen der differenzierten Integration sowie der europäischen Außenpolitik. Die Analyse kombiniert die Theorien des Konstruktivismus, des Neo-Institutionalismus sowie der Europäisierung und basiert auf einer Methodentriangulation von Diskursanalyse und Experteninterviews.

This paper claims that the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) of the EU, and in particular the elements related to justice and home affairs (JHA), is a complex, multilayered initiative that incorporates different logics and instruments. To unravel the various layers of the policy, the paper proceeds in three steps: firstly, it lays out some facts pertaining to the origins of the ENP, as its 'origins' arguably account for a number of the core tensions. It then presents the underlying logic and objectives attributed to JHA cooperation, which can be derived from the viewpoints voiced during policy formulation. The paper goes on to argue that despite the existence of different logics, there is a unifying objective, which is to 'extra-territorialise' the management of 'threats' to the neighbouring countries. The core of the paper presents the various policy measures that have been put in place to achieve external 'threat management'. In this context it is argued that the 'conditionality-inspired policy instruments', namely monitoring and benchmarking of progress, transfer of legal and institutional models to non-member states and inter-governmental negotiations, contain socialization elements that rely on the common values approach. This mix of conditionality and socialisation instruments is illustrated in two case studies, one on the fight against terrorism and one on irregular migration. Finally, the paper recommends that the EU draft an Action-Oriented Paper (AOP) on JHA cooperation with the ENP countries that indicates how the EU intends to balance the conflicting objectives and instruments that are currently present in the JHA provisions of the ENP.

Abstract: "The aim of the current article is to analyse the challenges for the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) to pursue a meaningful and effective policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on four dimensions: the history of European foreign policies toward the Middle East conflict, opportunities and constraints of realizing Palestinian self-determination, institutional opportunities and constraints for the ENP of walking the talk of an Israeli-Palestinian settlement, and policy options of the EU toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and their success conditions. The EU's chances and constraints in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are discussed as structural challenges: the challenge created through the historical normative engagement of the EU, the problematic local conditions for constructively dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the European institutional capabilities and their limits to project its policy concepts on the Middle East. The critical discussion of the three-faceted system of challenges that the EU is exposed to when dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is followed by the presentation and assessment of different policy options in the light of success conditions to (not) walk the talk of dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a productive way. The article comes to the conclusion that the EU is hardly capable of contributing to the realization of Palestinian self-determination." (Seite 59)