BOOK REVIEW: Marek Dabrowski, Maryla Maliszewska (editors), EU Eastern neighborhood: economic potential and future development; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011, 200 pages, ISBN: 978-3-642-21092-1

Each enlargement of the EU was a step forward to Central and Eastern Europe, so that the enlargements in 2004 and 2007 led to significant changes in the geopolitical context and to an increased role of the EU at a regional level and worldwide. At the same time the new realities have changed the research focus from the process of EU integration of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEE) to the relationship between EU and its Eastern neighbors.The book EU Eastern Neighborhood. Economic Potential and Future Development is a collective work, resulting from the joint efforts of a group of researchers under the research project on “EU Eastern Neighborhood: Economic Potential and Future Development (ENEPO)”, funded by the EU Sixth Framework Program.As stated by the two editors in the Preface, the paper follows the research objectives of the above mentioned research project. With a clearly stated intention to fill an existing gap in the literature coming from the fact that few studies “have investigated the adoption of European economic, legal and political institutions by CIS countries, the appropriateness of these institutions to CIS development needs, and their potential to speed up the transition and modernization process in this region” (p. vi), the present book provides useful insights into several pressing and challenging issues related to the economic, social and institutional development of CIS and the relations between this region and the EU.