title: Formulating Proposals for a More Effective Engagement with Neighbourhood Regions
abstract: This briefing paper draws from research done as part of ENGAGE Work Package 8 ‘Engaging with the EU’s Neighbourhoods’, which analyses how the EU has engaged with the neighbouring countries in the context of the European Neighbourhood Policy (the ENP). Launched in 2003 to increase the prosperity, stability and security of countries in the EU’s neighbourhood and to support their political, economic and institutional reforms, we find that the ENP proved to be a rather technocratic, de-securitised p