Elena Korosteleva is Senior Lecturer in European Politics and Director of the Centre for European Studies at Aberystwyth University. She is the author and editor of a number of books, with the focus on democratisation and EU foreign policy. She is the Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project 'Europeanising or Securitising the Outsiders? Assessing the EU's Partnership-Building Approach with Eastern Europe' (RES-061-25-0001).

The volume comprehensively explores success and problems of EU relations with Eastern Europe, under the European Neighbourhood Policy and Eastern Partnership.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics.

1. The Eastern Partnership Initiative: A New Opportunity for the Neighbours? Elena Korosteleva 2. Contested Neighbourhood or How to Reconcile the Differences Tanya Radchuk 3. Ukraine and the Eastern Partnership: 'Lost in Translation? Oleksander Stegniy 4. Belarus in the Context of the European Neighbourhood Policy: Between the EU and Russia David Rotman and Natalia Veremeeva 5. Moldova under the European Neighbourhood Policy: "Falling between stools?" Olga Danii and Mariana Mascauteanu 6. Russia-EU Relations or How the Russians Really View the EU Sergey Tumanov, Alexander Gasparishvili and Elena Romanova 7. Eastern Europe between East and West Ronald J. Hill 8. The EU and Eastern Europe: Forging a Sustainable Future? Stephen White