This book analyzes the projection of EU rules and policies onto its western, eastern and southern neighbours. It explores the impact of EU institutions, EU power, and the domestic structures of its partner countries on the effectiveness of external governance.This book was published as a special issue in Journal of European Public Policy.

1. EU Rules Beyond EU Borders: Theorizing External Governance in European Politics Sandra Lavenex 2. Modes of External Governance: A Cross-National and Cross-Sectoral Comparison Sandra Lavenex, Dirk Lehmkuhl and Nicole Wichmann 3. Which Rules Shape EU External Governance? Patterns of Rule Selection in Foreign and Security Policies Esther Barbé, Oriol Costa, Anna Herranz and Michal Natorski 4. Constraining External Governance: Interdependence with Russia and the CIS as Limits to EU’s Rule Transfer in the Ukraine Antoaneta Dimitrova and Rilka Dragneva 5. Hierarchy, Networks, or Markets: How does the EU Shape Environmental Policy Adoptions within and Beyond its Borders? Christoph Knill and Jale Tosun 6. Democracy Promotion as External Governance Richard Youngs 7. EU Promotion of Democratic Governance in the Neighborhood Tina Freyburg, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig, Tatiana Skripka and Anne Wetzel

'The articles collected in this volume provide convincing proof of the potential of the externl governance approach proposed by Lavenex and Schimmelfennig, especially because of the strong empirical foundation of the case studies. Both researchers interested in a powerful approach to studying the EU's impact abroad and those looking for an assessment of the EU's influence on the specific areas studied will find this book valuable reading.' - Miguel Haubrich-Seco, The International Spectator, Vol. 46, 3, September 2011