Preface
Kathariná Mathernová

Introduction:The European Union, its Eastern Neighbourhood and an Evolving Structured Engagement within and beyond the Eastern Partnership Framework

Tobias Schumacher

Part I: The EU's Eastern Partnership and Regional Dynamics: Enduring Issues and Contending Perspectives

1. The European Union's 'Ideal Self' in the Post-Soviet Space

Cristian Nitoiu

2. Between the Eastern Partnership and Eurasian Integration: Explaining Post-Soviet Countries' Engagement in (Competing) Region-Building Projects

Laure Delcour

3. "The transformative power of Europe" beyond enlargement: the EU's performance in promoting democracy in its neighbourhood

Tanja A. Börzel and Bidzina Lebanidze

4. The Geopoliticisation of the EU's Eastern Partnership

David Cadier

5. The Unintended Consequences of a European Neighbourhood Policy without Russia

Tom Casier

6. Bringing "the political" back into European security: challenges to the EU's ordering of the Eastern Partnership

Liciìnia SimaÞo

Part II:The EU's Bilateral Engagement with Eastern Neighbours: A Growing Menu of Choice

7. State building and European integration in Ukraine

Kataryna Wolczuk

8. When Goliath meets Goliath: how Russia and the EU created a vicious circle of instability in Moldova

Ryhor Nizhnikau

9. The Politics of Flexibility: Exploring the Contested Statehood-EU Actorness Nexus in Georgia

Madalina Dobrescu and Tobias Schumacher

10. Armenia and Belarus: caught between the EU's and Russia's conditionalities?

Alena Vieira and Syuzanna Vasilyan

11. The European Union and Belarus: democracy promotion by technocratic means?

Elena A. Korosteleva

12. From 'Unilateral' to 'Dialogical': Determinants of EU-Azerbaijan Negotiations
Eske van Gils

Part III: Looking Backward: The EU, the Eastern Neighbours and the 'Eastern Partnership' a Decade Past

13. Looking Backward: Deliverables and Drawbacks of the Eastern Partnership during 2009-2020

Andriy Tyushka and Tobias Schumacher

Conclusion: The EU and its Eastern Neighbourhood - whither 'Eastern Partnership'?

Andriy Tyushka

Annexes

Annex 1. Content Analysing the Joint Declarations of the Eastern Partnership Summits in 2009-2017

Annex 2. Studying EU-Eastern Neighbours Relations Within and Beyond the Eastern Partnership in 2009-2020: A Bibliometric Perspective