Scholar Speaks on Post-Cold War EU-Enlargement Policy

EU scholar Stefan Ganzle spoke Monday at CEU on the status of European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), a program launched by the European Commission in 2004 to address challenges of EU enlargement in the post-Cold War political landscape.

In order to promote democratic and economic reforms among post-communist Eastern European states vying for EU membership, the EU’s European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) been adapted as a form of “externalization of EU governance,” according to Ganzle. He outlined areas of governance that need to be “changed, blurred, or modified,” in order to realistically meet the geopolitical, cultural and institutional demands of EU expansion.

Stefan Ganzle is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, and has written and lectured extensively on EU enlargement and international relations. Before coming to Norway, he was a senior researcher at the German Development Institute in Bonn. He has been visiting assistant professor at University of British Columbia and a research fellow at the University of Jena, the European University Institute (EUI) as well as a researcher-in-residence at the OSCE.

Ganzle’s visit was organized by CEU’s Department of International Relations and European Studies (IRES).