EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood Relations in Flux

Abstract

This panel examines the EU's evolving relationships with its neighborhood and candidate countries amid profound regional and global transformations. Papers reassess Euro-Mediterranean relations through the New Pact for the Mediterranean and the role of external powers, reconceptualize EU enlargement through a critical lens as a geopolitical fantasy structured by desire and identity closure, analyze the interplay between external incentives and internal political will in explaining candidate countries' formal convergence with EU social policy acquis, and explore how the war in Gaza has challenged the privileged partnership between Europe and Israel.

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Reassessing Euro-Mediterranean Relations in a Fragmented Global Order: The New Pact for the Mediterranean and the Role of External Powers	View Paper Details
The Great Cultural Power Competition: Tensions and Gaps in the EU’s Global Audiovisual Actorness	View Paper Details
EU Enlargement as a Geopolitical Fantasy of Identity Closure	View Paper Details
From External Incentives to Internal Political Will: Explaining Formal Convergence Between the Candidate Countries and the EU Acquis in the Area of Social Policy	View Paper Details
Privileged Partnership Under Strain: How War in Gaza Challenged European-Israeli Relations	View Paper Details