This article reflects on the development and operation of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) from the perspective of the post-1989 attempt to extend the West European ‘Security Community’ into the wider Europe via processes of both EU enlargement and attempts to foster deep integration with former Soviet states. Whilst the EU’s strategy towards eastern neighbours should certainly not be taken as the sole or even key cause of the ‘insecurity zone’ in and around the EU’s eastern frontier, it seems hard to avoid the conclusion that actions such as the ENP and EaP have played an important part in these developments. This is an analytical contribution rather than a study based on primary research. As well as extending existing discussions about the expansion of the European Security Community and the application of the ‘Optimum Integration Area’ concept to the EaP countries, the article includes a focus on EU states’ economic relations with Russia which is a critical albeit underexplored constraint upon EU ‘eastern’ policy. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.10.14579

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扩建后欧洲的困境：建立一个“不确定性社区”？

本文从1989年后尝试通过欧盟扩大和促进深度融合的过程将西欧“安全共同体”扩展到更广阔的欧洲的角度来反思欧洲邻里政策（ENP）的发展和运作。与前苏联国家。尽管当然不应将欧盟对东部邻国的战略视为欧盟东部边界及其周边地区“不安全区”的唯一或什至主要原因，但似乎很难避免得出这样的结论，即ENP和EaP等行动已经发挥了作用。这些发展的重要组成部分。这是分析性的贡献，而不是基于基础研究的研究。除了扩展有关欧洲安全共同体扩展以及“最佳一体化区域”概念在EaP国家中的应用的现有讨论之外，本文还重点介绍了欧盟国家与俄罗斯的经济关系，尽管这是未充分开发的限制，但仍是至关重要的根据欧盟的“东方”政策。DOI：http：//dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.10.14579