The handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the EU's most important foreign policy instrument, provided by leading experts in the field. It covers the most important themes, developments and dynamics in the EU's neighbourhood policy framework through a series of cutting-edge contributions.

Foreword [Johannes Hahn] Preface [Tobias Schumacher, Andreas Marchetti and Thomas Demmelhuber] 1. Introduction: The European Neighbourhood Policy: The challenge of demarcating a complex and contested field of study [Tobias Schumacher] Part I: Conceptual, theoretical and legal approaches in the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy 2. Beyond enlargement: conceptualizing the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy [Frank Schimmelfennig] 3. EU actorness and the European Neighbourhood Policy [Nils Hoffmann and Arne Niemann] 4. The challenge of analysing the performance of the European Neighbourhood Policy [Dorina Baltag and Iulian Romanyshyn] 5. Power and leadership in the European Neighbourhood: contending role concepts [Lisbeth Aggestam] 6. Realism and the European Neighbourhood Policy [Adrian Hyde-Price] 7. Constructivist approaches to the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy [Petr Kratochvíl and Elsa Tulmets] 8. The study of the European Neighbourhood Policy through the lenses of critical approaches [Åsne Kalland Aarstad and Niklas Bremberg] 9. Methodological and theoretical challenges to the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy [Theofanis Exadaktylos] 10. Legal perspectives on the study of the European Neighbourhood Policy [Peter Van Elsuwege and Roman Petrov] Part II: The EU and its neighbourhood: drawing borders, shaping identities 11. The construction and deconstruction of the EU's neighbourhood [Christopher Browning] 12. Of borders and boundaries: the neighbourhood as the EU's buffer zone [Andreas Marchetti] 13. The EU and the European Neighbourhood Policy: the re-making of Europe's identity [Jan Zielonka] 14. Strategic narratives of EU foreign policy and the European Neighbourhood Policy [Alister Miskimmon] 15. The challenges of a changing eastern neighbourhood [Elena Korosteleva] 16. The challenges of a changing southern neighbourhood [Thomas Demmelhuber] Part III: European Neighbourhood Policy-making: institutional dynamics, actors and instruments 17. Coherence, cohesiveness and consistency in the European Neighbourhood Policy [Tanja Börzel and Bidzina Lebanidze] 18. European Neighbourhood Policy decision-making at critical junctures: EU institutions, the Member States and neighbourhood countries [Mark Furness] 19. EU Member States and the European Neighbourhood Policy [Amelia Hadfield] 20. The European Parliament as an actor in its own right in the in the EU's neighbourhood [Cristian Nitoiu] 21. Financial instruments and the European Neighbourhood Policy [Anna-Sophie Maass] Part IV: Bilateralism, region-building and conflict management in the European Neighbourhood Policy 22. The European Neighbourhood Policy between bilateralism and region-building [Federica Bicchi, Gergana Noutcheva and Benedetta Voltolini] 23. The EU and civilian missions in the neighbourhood [Dimitris Bouris and Madalina Dobrescu] 24. The European Neighbourhood Policy and the politics of sanctions [Clara Portela] 25. Ukraine in the European Neighbourhood Policy: a paradoxical partner [Kataryna Wolczuk] 26. EU-Belarus relations in the context of the European Neighbourhood Policy [Giselle Bosse] 27. The European Neighbourhood Policy and Moldova: a resilient oligarchic system wedged between the EU and Russia [Florent Parmentier] 28. The European Neighbourhood Policy and the South Caucasus [Licìnia Simão] 29. The European Neighbourhood Policy and EU-Maghreb relations [Irene Fernández-Molina] 30. EU-Mashreq relations: differentiation, conditionality and security [Peter Seeberg] 31. Israel and Palestine and the European Neighbourhood Policy [Patrick Müller Sharon Pardo] 32. Libya and Syria: at the Ccossroads of European Neighbourhood Policy and EU crisis management [Nicole Koenig] Part V: The European Neighbourhood Policy and sectoral cooperation 33. Deep and comprehensive free trade agreements [Bernard Hoekman] 34. The European Neighbourhood Policy and energy [Bernd Weber] 35. Migration: moving to the centre of the European Neighbourhood Policy [Florian Trauner and Jean-Pierre Cassarino] 36. Counter-terrorism cooperation and the European Neighbourhood Policy [Chantal Lavallée, Sarah Léonard and Christian Kaunert] 37. Aid in the European Neighbourhood Policy [Fabienne Bossuyt, Hrant Kostanyan, Jan Orbie and Bruno Vandecasteele] Part VI: The European Neighbourhood Policy and the promotion of EU norms and values 38. Perceptions of the European Neighbourhood Policy and of its values and norms promotion [Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués] 39. European Neighbourhood Policy mechanisms: conditionality, socialisation and differentiation [Laure Delcour and Eduard Soler i Lecha] 40. Geopolitics and democracy in the European Neighbourhood Policy [Anna Khakee and Richard Youngs] 41. Democracy promotion by functional cooperation [Tina Freyburg and Sandra Lavenex] 42. Human rights in the European Neighbourhood Policy [Rosa Balfour] 43. The European Neighbourhood Policy promotion of civil society [Silvia Colombo and Natalia Shapovalova] Part VII: The European Neighbourhood Policy and future lines of inquiry 44. The European Neighbourhood Policy and Islamist actors in the southern neighbourhood [Michelle Pace and Sarah Wolff] 45. The neighbours of the EU's neighbours: overcoming geographical silos [Sieglinde Gstöhl and Erwan Lannon] 46. The European Neighbourhood Policy and the CFSP/CSDP: from the European Security Strategy to the Global Strategy [Thomas Henökl]