Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe
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Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: The Myth of Conditionality(One Europe or Several?)

Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: The Myth of Conditionality(One Europe or Several?)


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EU Enlargement to the Central and Eastern European candidate countries is widely understood as having been an important mechanism for Europeanization. The conditionality for EU membership is seen as providing incentives and sanctions for compliance or non-compliance with EU norms and rules, such as the 'Copenhagen Criteria' and the transposition of the acquis communautaire into domestic law. Critically engaging with the concepts of 'Europeanization' and conditionality within which enlargement is generally addressed, this book takes a broader comparative approach. It is the first systematic theoretical and empirical analysis of the key linkages between the simultaneous processes of enlargement, Europeanization and post-communist transition. Drawing from an unprecedented number of interviews with elites in the Central and Eastern European Candidate Countries (CEECs) and officials in Brussels, together with a thorough examination of the official documentation, the authors identify and assess the dynamic interactions between the Commission and the CEECs over regional policy - one of the most important policy areas for enlargement and the future of the EU. The nebulous nature of enlargement conditionality, how the Commission shifted the parameters over time, and the many paradoxes and weaknesses in its use made conditionality more of a myth than a coherent instrument for Europeanization.

Table of Contents:
Introduction The Logic of Enlargement Conditionality and Europeanization Communist Legacies and Regionalization The Commission, Conditionality and Regional Policy Monitoring Conditionality and Compliance Transition, Enlargement and Regionalization: A Comparison of Hungary and Poland Elites and the Capacity for Europeanization Conclusion Bibliography Statistical Appendix

About the Author :
JAMES HUGHES is Reader in Comparative and East European Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He taught at the universities of Surrey, Trinity College Dublin, and Keele before joining the Department of Government at LSE in 1994. He was a Nuffield Social Science Fellow (1994-5) and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2001-02). GWENDOLYN SASSE is Lecturer in East European Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She taught at the Central European University before joining the European Institute at LSE in 1999. Since 2002 she is based both in the European Institute and in the Department of Government. Her PhD was awarded the LSE Robert McKenzie Prize. CLAIRE GORDON is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Review :
'well-structured and convincing book...at last, I have finally encountered a book that deals with the complexities of European Union conditionality without surrending to the easy depiction of the colonial-type pure power asymmetry which leaves no room for counteractions...this book constitutes one of the most in-depth and best documented studies on not only the standing criteria to comply with and the difficulties of implementation, but also the informal pressures (page 2) which offer a deeper understanding of enlargement process as a dynamic ineraction between institutional incentives and rules and domestic transition factors...the main interest lies in the dynamic research methods of the authors, largely based on a number of very valuable interviews with EU officials and the local and regional elites'. - Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez - Environment and Planning


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  • ISBN-13: 9780230503182
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Series Title: One Europe or Several?
  • ISBN-10: 0230503187
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2004
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: The Myth of Conditionality


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