Political and Legal Perspectives of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy [Paperback]

This book examines EUEastern Partnership taking into account geopolitical challenges of EUintegration. It highlights reasons for limited success, such as systematicconflict of EU External Action. In addition, the book analyses country-specificissues and discusses EaP influence on them, investigating political, economicand social factors, while seeking for potential solutions to existing problems.The reluctance of the Eastern countries to the European reforms should notreduce political pro-activeness of the EU. The authors suggest that EaPstrategies should be reviewed to be more reciprocal and not based solely on theEU-laden agenda. This book is one of the good examples of cooperation betweenscholars not only from EaP and EU countries, but also from differentdisciplines, bringing diversity to the discussion process.

TanelKerikm?e, Dimensions and Implications of Eastern PartnershipPolicy: Introduction.- Vlad Vernygora, DavidRamiro Troiti?o and Sigrid V?stra, The Eastern Partnership Programme:  is pragmatic regional functionalism workingfor a contemporary political empire?.- TatjanaMuravska and Alexandre Berlin, Towards a New European Neighbourhood Policy(ENP): What Benefits of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements(DCFTAs) for Shared Prosperity and Security?.- Olga Batura and Tatjana Evas, Information Society goesEast: ICT policy in the EUs Eastern Partnership cooperation framework.- Yuri Misnikov, Democratizating theEastern Partnership in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities ofPolitical Association beyond the Language of Official Texts.- Katrin Nyman-Metcalf and TarasRepytskyi, Exporting good governance via e-Governance: Estoniane-Governance support to Eastern Partnershipcountries.- Kristi Joamets, EasternPartnership and FamilÃj