The European neighbourhood policy : an effective foreign policy tool for the European Union?

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This thesis assesses whether the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) could evolve as an effective foreign policy tool of the EU. It aims to analyze the ENP’s impact on the EU foreign policy in general and the Union’s transformative capacity over its neighbours in particular. To this purpose, the thesis initially explores the underlying motives behind the origins and emergence of the ENP and further elaborates its policy framework and its phase of implementation so far. The thesis then identifies the limits of the ENP, namely the internal and external constraints of the policy and on the basis of these shortcomings, discusses the overall impact of the ENP on the EU foreign policy. More specifically, the thesis focuses on the ENP’s impact analysis for the EU’s transformative capacity in its direct neighbourhood. Finally, the thesis assesses the main reasons of why it seems unlikely that the ENP could not evolve as a fully-fledged foreign policy tool for the Union and highlights the need for a major reform or re-adjustment of the policy.

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General Social Sciences.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16891

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B. Mazlum, “The European neighbourhood policy : an effective foreign policy tool for the European Union?,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.