The Vilnius summit at the end of November is expected to represent a landmark in EU policy towards the Eastern Partnership countries, with the likely signing of Association and Free Trade Agreements with some of these countries. In this Policy Brief Laure Delcour and Kataryna Wolczuk argue that...

Drawing upon the policy instrument approach developed by Lascoumes and Le Galès, this article examines the representations and meanings underlying the Eastern Partnership’s tools and their effects on policy practices in partner countries. Based upon two sector-specific studies (EU instruments...

This article analyses the extent to which and the way in which the European Union has acted as a security provider in its eastern vicinity since the European Neighbourhood Policy was launched. The EU’s capacity to emerge as a security provider and the approaches developed in this purpose are...