Managing Security Threats along the EU’s Eastern Flanks

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
 The Price and Possibilities of Going East? The European Union and Wider Europe, the European Neighbourhood and the Eastern Partnership  (Rick Fawn)....Pages 1-29
 Turning Points and Shifting Understandings of European Security: The European Neighbourhood Policy’s Development  (Maria Raquel Freire, Licínia Simão)....Pages 31-52
 The Dilemmas of a Four-Headed Russian Eagle for the EU: Russia as Conflict Instigator, Mediator, Saviour and Perpetuator  (Rick Fawn)....Pages 53-67
 The US and the New Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) Since 1991  (Jason Bruder)....Pages 69-97
 The EU and Pan-European IOs and ‘Symbolic’ Successes and Failures in the Protracted Conflicts in Moldova and Georgia  (Nina Lutterjohann)....Pages 99-129
 Georgia as a Case Study of EU Influence, and How Russia Accelerated EU-Russian relations  (Shu Uchida)....Pages 131-151
 Security Challenges in Ukraine After Euromaidan  (Andreas Marazis)....Pages 153-176
 Iraq and the Kurds: What Threats to European Stability?  (Samuel Doveri Vesterbye)....Pages 177-202
 In-Between Domestic Terrorism, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS, or How Russia Sees Prospects of Security Cooperation with the EU  (Elena Zhirukhina)....Pages 203-224
 The EU and Central Asia: The Nuances of an ‘Aided’ Partnership  (Karolina Kluczewska, Shairbek Dzhuraev)....Pages 225-251
 Reflections on How the EU Is Handling Threats to Stability in Wider Europe  (Dominika Krois)....Pages 253-263
Back Matter ....Pages 265-275