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The literature on the European Union's influence in its Eastern neighbourhood has tended to focus on EU-level policies and prioritise EU-related variables. This book seeks to overcome this EU-centric approach by connecting EU policy transfer to the domestic and regional environment in which it unfolds.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Analytical Framework -- 2 The EU and the Post-Soviet Area after the Collapse of the USSR: The Shadow of Regional Integration -- 3 Shaping a Regional Security Order? The EU and the Creation of a 'Security Complex' -- 4 Russia: A Disruptive Other -- 5 The Eastern Neighbourhood: A New Region for a Flagship Policy -- 6 The EU: A Latecomer in Central Asia's Great Game -- 7 Consistency as a Major Challenge for EU Policies in the Post-Soviet Space -- 8 The EU and Subregional Multilateralism with Post-Soviet Countries: The Northern Dimension, Black Sea Synergy and the Limits of the Functional Approach -- Conclusion: Shaping or Shaped by the Post-Soviet Area? -- References -- Index.

Drawing on a wealth of sources and extensive fieldwork conducted in the Commonwealth of Independent States and interested in exposing why the EU has not pursued a strategy of 'region-building' in the post-Soviet area, Delcour examines the disintegration dynamics affecting the area following the collapse of the USSR.

International audience ; The article seeks to provide insights into how the EAEU is used and exploited by local actors as an economic and political resource. It does so by delving into the preferences and practices of Armenian political elites and non-state actors. The article highlights multiple flexibilities in the Eurasian integration process. Uncertainties and flaws in the rule-making process create loopholes that are then exploited by domestic actors (that is, rule-takers) with a view to pursuing their own goals. Thus, processes of rule development and adoption entail a variety of nuances also involving translation, adjustment and adaptation. Therefore, the article brings strong nuances into the prevailing picture of Eurasian integration as an example of hard regionalism, and instead suggests the development of a malleable integration process.