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This paper features 12 articles on how the EU’s Eastern Patnership (EaP) neighbors –Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan– interact with third powers, including China, Iran, Turkey, the Arab states and Israel. Two key insights that emerge from the analyses with regards to these relations include 1) that China, Turkey, Iran and the Arab states all have a larger presence in the EU’s eastern neighborhood than was the case a decade ago; and 2) that this trend is driven by the growing economic and foreign policy ambitions of the third powers as well as the EaP countries’ eagerness to expand their economic and diplomatic links with powers other than the EU, US or Russia.