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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The European Neighbourhood Policy and the Democratic Values of the EU: A Legal Analysis by Narine Ghazaryan
This book offers a legal analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy (the ENP) as it applies to developing relations with the EUs neighbours in the East and South. It explores the legal aspects of this policy including ENP competence matters institutional arrangements and substantive policy issues using international relations theory as the starting point in defining the EUs role as a political actor. The book focuses on the adequacy of the ENP legal framework for transposing the EUs democratic values and upholding its political image. In this connection the book also features an analysis of EU democratic values as they are intended to be understood by its neighbours. The relevant legal framework of this policy and its implementation in the states of the South Caucasus (Georgia Armenia and Azerbaijan) is evaluated revealing the effects of the ENP in their democratic processes.