La politique européenne de voisinage, un complexe de sécurité à géométrie variable

The project underlying the European Neighbourhood Policy is not located where one would expect it to be. The will to create a circle of close friends may have played a significant role. However, there are other more diffuse logics at play that can only be uncovered through the close reading of the official texts. We will try to show that in addition to prosperity, the cardinal points orienting the ENP are to be found in the practice of “bordering” and the quest for difference. These dynamics will here allow highlighting that the levers of the ENP, i.e. socialisation and conditionality, because they bring different expectations together, inexorably lead the European Union to establish a security complex based on the principle of variable geometry.