The book argues that what is often considered a fundamental dilemma of EU foreign policy - a choice between the EU's values and its quest for security - misrepresents a much more complex reality in which values and security interplay to shape the European Neighborhood Policy.

Gergana Noutcheva is Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department of Maastricht University, the Netherlands.|Karolina Pomorska is Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department of Maastricht University, the Netherlands.|Giselle Bosse is Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department of Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

1. Values versus Security? The Choice for the EU and its Neighbours
Part I: Power and values in the EU's relations with its neighbours
2. The EU as a Regional Hegemon? From Enlargement to ENP
3. The Re-Bordering of Values through the European Neighbourhood
Part II: Democracy and good governance
4. EU Political Dilemmas in North Africa and the Middle East: the Logic of Diversity and the Limits to Foreign Policy
5. Values and Security: the European Union's Dilemma of Democracy Promotion in the Middle East
6. Forging a Wider European Security Community? Dilemmas of ENP in the South Caucasus
7. Values versus Security? Assessing the EU's Pragmatic Engagement with Belarus in the Eastern Partnership Policy
Part III: Hard and soft security challenges
8. EU and Ethno-political Conflicts. A Secure Europe in a More Peaceful Neighbourhood?
9. Deeds not Declarations: Ukraine's Convergence with the EU's Foreign and Security Policies until 2010
10. Conducting Relations with a Difficult Neighbour. The European Union's Struggle to Influence Russian Domestic Politics
11. Values versus Security in the External Dimension of EU Migration Policy: a Case Study on the Readmission Agreement with Russia
Part IV: Conclusion
12. Conceptualising the EU's Role in the European Neighbourhood