The Boundaries of EU Enlargement

ANNEGRET BENDIEK Research Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, Germany CHRISTOPHER S. BROWNING Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. TOM CASIER Assistant Professor and Programme Director of the M.A. European Studies, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands LENARD J. COHEN Professor of International Studies, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada STEFAN GA NZLE Visiting Assistant Professor (DAAD), Institute for European Studies and the Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada PERTTI JOENNIEMI Senior Research Fellow, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen, Denmark TETYANA KOSHMANOVA Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies, Western Michigan University, USA NORMA C. NOONAN Professor of Political Science and Director of the M.A. in Leadership Program, Augsburg College in Minneapolis, USA CHARLES C. PENTLAND Professor of Political Studies and Director of the Centre for International Relations, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada HELENA RYTOVUORI-APUNEN Senior Research Fellow, Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), University of Tampere, Finland ROBERT WEINER Professor of Political Science and Graduate Program Director of International Relations, McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts/Boston, USA LYUBOV ZHYZNOMIRSKA Doctoral Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Canada

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements pushed the EU's external border further east as well as closer to unstable areas in the western Balkans. With future enlargements unlikely in the short-term, the EU faces new challenges in securing stable relationships with these neighbouring countries, while not fostering false hopes of early accession.The 2004 and 2007 enlargements pushed the EU's external border further east as well as closer to unstable areas in the western Balkans. With future enlargements unlikely in the short-term, the EU faces new challenges in securing stable relationships with these neighbouring countries, while not fostering false hopes of early accession.