Introduction. Licínia Simão and Remi Piet -- PART I: TRIANGULATING PERCEPTIONS AMONG REGIONAL POWERS -- Chapter 1. Identities and Images of Competition in the Overlapping Neighbourhoods: How EU and Russian Foreign Policies Interact; Tom Casier -- Chapter 2. Russian Foreign Policy and the Shaping of a ‘Greater Europe’; Maria Raquel Freire -- Chapter 3. Turkey's Policies in its Overlapping Neighbourhood with Russia and the EU; Çiğdem Üstün -- Chapter 4. EU-Russia Relations and Norm Diffusion: the Role of Non-State Actors; Sandra Fernandes -- PART II: SECURITY IN THE SHARED NEIGHBORHOOD -- Chapter 5. The Securitization of the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood: What Role for Russia?; Licínia Simão and Vanda Amaro Dias -- Chapter 6. Out of Will or Out of Necessity? Turkey and the Middle East; André Barrinha and Laura Bastos -- PART III: COMPETING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC MODELS IN THE SHARED NEIGHBORHOOD -- Chapter 7. The Impact of the Arab Spring on Central Asia: Regional and Macro-regional Implications; Ekaterina Koldunova -- Chapter 8. Dichotomy of Energy Policies in the Caspian: Where Two Strive Another Benefits?; Slawomir Raszewski -- Chapter 9. Azerbaijan’s Rites of Passage: Liminality, Centering and the Temptation of Strategic Autonomy; Bradford McGuinn -- Conclusion; Licínia Simão. .