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The chapter presents a review of the European Neighbourhood Policy’s diversified aims and of its realizations. In light of the main criticisms that authors and experts have expressed towards the EU’s attempts to extend its “normative power” beyond its external borders, the chapter presents an assessment of the ENP’s goals and narratives with a specific focus on its diversified regional strategies and on the perspectives for a multi-level governance of the policy. The aim is to show how the ENP is not a unitary but fragmented and controversial strategy: bordering and cross-bordering, homogenisations and differentiations, centrifugal and centripetal forces proceed side-by-side. Grasping the variety of these apparently contradictory forces, it is argued, is more useful in understanding the Neighbourhood Policy rather than referring to simple and ‘territorial’ metaphors such as “wider Europe”, on the one hand, or “fortress Europe” on the other.
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The NIPs that have been reviewed are listed in the bibliography.
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An Association Agreement was signed with Algeria in 2002 and entered into force in 2005, but the negotiation of an Action Plan is considered premature at this stage (European Commission 2007a, p. 2).
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An Association Agreement has been negotiated with Syria, but it is currently blocked due to the violent repression of anti-government protests since mid-March 2011.
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European Union and Tunisia Action Plan include in its aims “promoting integration in the Maghreb region” (p. 1).
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Created in 1992 to foster interaction and harmony in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
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Created in 2006, by Romanian initiative, to set up a regular consultative process among Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, plus Bulgaria and Turkey as observers.
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Celata, F., Coletti, R., Polizzi, E. (2015). The European Neighbourhood Policy, Region-Building and Bordering. In: Celata, F., Coletti, R. (eds) Neighbourhood Policy and the Construction of the European External Borders. GeoJournal Library, vol 115. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18452-4_3
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