ENP's Values Conditionality from Enlargements to Post-Crimea
Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal
Year: 2015

This chapter puts the problems with value conditionality in the EU’s neighbourhood in the context of the general resounding failure of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP): embarking to establish a ‘ring of friends’ around the EU, the policy has not delivered: the neighbourhood is much poorer and infinitely more dangerous now than ever before in the recent past. From Russia’s annexation of the part of Ukraine and its pocket war in Donbass to the rise of the Islamic State, the initial goal of