Russia and the West are currently in the most serious divide since the end of the Cold War. The EU and NATO versus Russia in Moscow's traditional back yard, where Ukraine and Moldova are the proxies. In this regional framework, the EU and NATO member states are facing a dilemma: economic gains...

This paper argues that the balance between the size of EU incentives and the costs of democratic transformation has impeded democratic consolidation in Eastern ENP countries. Whereas the cost-benefit balance of norm adoption appears to be a relevant predictor of regime trajectories in this...

The first part of the article is devoted to a study of the scope and content of the ENP and the EaP and their impact on security in the region. The second part of the paper analyses the impact of the EU neighbourhood policies on the ‘post-Crimea' and ‘post-Donbass' EU neighbourhood