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...

Since the beginning of the last decade the Union has more and more sought to pursue its migration policy externally, especially in its neighbourhood. Migration issues are salient under the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) created in 2004. Neighbours indeed play a key role in migration flows...