On the fringes of the European peace project: The neighbourhood policy’s functionalist hubris and political myopia
Journal: The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
Year: 2016

The destabilization of Eastern Europe and of the Southern Mediterranean has exposed the limits of the European peace project. Obviously, the European Neighbourhood Policy has not succeeded in boosting peace and prosperity. This article attributes this failure to a combination of functionalist hubris and political myopia that emanates from the European Union’s peculiar constitution as a regulatory power with weak political union. While the projection of the European Union’s single market acquis h