Assessing the performance of the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe and in its neighbourhood

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the editors and team at East European Politics, Petr Kopecký, Adam Fagan and Indraneel Sircar for their continuous support and interest in this Special Issue. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. Finally, we wish to thank all contributors for all their work and commitment to this project.

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Notes on contributors

Dimitris Papadimitriou is Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. He has previously held visiting posts at Princeton University, the London School of Economics and Yale University. He has written extensively on the European Union’s enlargement policy and state-building activities in South East Europe. He has also published widely on Greek politics and modern Greek history. He is the (co)-author of six books, an edited volume and numerous articles in leading international journals. His last book, Prime Ministers in Greece: The Paradox of Power (with Kevin Featherstone) was published by Oxford University Press in 2015.

Dorina Baltag teaches European Studies at Maastricht University and is currently a PhD candidate at Loughborough University. Her current research for which she obtained a Marie Curie Fellowship in 2012 focuses on EU diplomatic performance in Eastern Europe with focus on Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus. Recently she contributed to the “Routledge Handbook on the ENP” (Routledge, Oxford) and the “External Governance as Security Community Building” (Palgrave, London). Her work has been published, in among other, in SWP (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) working papers (2011), INCOOP policy briefs (2013), NUPI (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) working papers (2014), and EIoP (European Integration Online) papers (2015).

Neculai-Cristian Surubaru is a PhD candidate in Political Science and European Studies at Loughborough University. His main research focuses on administrative capacity, politicisation and governance processes in Central and Eastern Europe. He has been a Teaching Assistant at Loughborough University and a Guest Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He has been published or is forthcoming in Regional Studies, Routledge in the Regions and Cities, Regional Studies/Regional Science and the Romanian Journal of European Affairs. Apart from his academic work, he has contributed to several policy reports that informed policy-makers in Brussels and Bucharest.

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Funding

This work was supported by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies [Small event grants] Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence [Seminar/workshop grants].