1st Edition
‘The Politics’ and ‘The Political’ of the Eastern Partnership Initiative Reshaping the Agenda
1. Eastern Partnership: bringing “the political” back in
Elena Korosteleva
2. Bringing “the political” back into European security: challenges to the EU’s ordering of the Eastern Partnership
Licínia Simão
3. How “the political” can make the European external action service more effective in the eastern region
Hrant Kostanyan
4. Exploring the European Union’s rationalities of governing: the case of cross-border mobility in the eastern partnership
Igor Merheim-Eyre
5. Differentiation through bargaining power in EU–Azerbaijan relations: Baku as a tough negotiator
Eske van Gils
6. Europe and the political: from axiological monism to pluralistic dialogism
Richard Sakwa
Biography
Elena Korosteleva is Professor of International Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics, at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, UK. She is Director of the Global European Centre, and LSE Dahrendorf Debating Europe Professorial Fellow.
Igor Merheim-Eyre is a Research Fellow, Global Europe Centre, University of Kent, UK.
Eske van Gils is Post-Doctoral Research Associate, GCRF RCUK COMPASS Project ‘Comprehensive Capacity-building in Eastern Europe and Central Asia’, and Research Fellow, Global Europe Centre, University of Kent, UK.






