This paper captures the contradictions at the heart of the European Union's (EU) security approach in Eastern Europe and reveals their implications in practice. The EU's security approach towards the states at its Eastern borders has been characterized by pervasive ambiguity, oscillating between...

Presents a modern definition of lobbying suitable for the use of organizational lobbyists and a theory of lobbying as conflict accommodation which arouses ethical considerations. A contingency model of effective lobbying strategies and dynamics of lobbying is developed and tested in a...