Governing Europe's Neighbourhood

Download or read book Governing Europe's Neighbourhood written by Katja Weber and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlargement has functioned as one of the European Union's most effective foreign policy tools, yet the EU is rapidly approaching the limits of its capacity to accept new member states. It must develop ways of extending and preserving the European zone of peace that do not rely on the prospect of membership as a means of influencing the behavior of non-member countries. A major step in this direction is the EU's new European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). The ENP aims to create a ring of "well-governed and friendly" countries along the EU's peripheries. This volume explains whether the ENP represents a truly new approach to regional governance and what lessons that effort might offer to larger debates about the future of Europe.