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This paper focuses on how incorporating the EU's southern neighbors (Tunisia, Algeria, etc.) with treaty-based legal integration could strategically benefit the EU. The authors argue that the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) currently lacks a strategic vision for states in the southern Mediterranean and that current strategies relying on economic integration have so far proved unsuccessful. However treaty based legal integration has proved successful in Eastern Europe where the framework has provided incentive for partner countries' administrations to rise above political turmoil and towards the procurement of relatively short-term and tangible benefits from cooperation with the EU.