title: Concluding observations
abstract: The concept of Neighbourhood as something geopolitical is part of the rethinking of the European Union's general societal impact within the setting of post-Cold War reconfigurations of interstate relations. In the joint consultation paper on the renewal of the European Neighbourhood policy (ENP), the EU's ambitious goals of regional cooperation through partnership signal sustained commitment to a new style of international relations. In the present geopolitical context, nationalism and nation-bu