European Union Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood

<p>The conflict in South Ossetia in the summer of 2008 and the Ukrainian energy crisis in early 2009 served to highlight the tensions that continue to influence EU-Russia relations in regard to the region comprising the former republics of the Soviet Union or the ‘shared neighbourhood’.</p><p>This book draws together research which examines the objectives of EU and Russian foreign policy and the complexities of the security challenges in this region. Although both actors have a shared interest in cooperating to create conditions of peace and stability we have in recent years observed the development of growing competition between the EU and Russian foreign policy agendas.</p><p>This book was based on a special issue of <em>Europe-Asia Studies.</em></p>