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Questioning EU Enlargement: Europe in Search of Identity book cover

1st Edition

Questioning EU Enlargement Europe in Search of Identity

Edited By Helene Sjursen Copyright 2006
240 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge
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This new book takes a unique approach to the study of European enlargement, tackling key questions. What kind of understanding of the EU do the enlargement processes speak to? Do decisions to enlarge mainly suggest that the EU is a free market, focusing on potential economic gains? Do they indicate that there is a sense of common European identity? Or is the focus primarily on securing respect... Read more

1 Enlargement and the nature of the EU polity

Helene Sjursen

PART I

THE EU AS A POST-NATIONAL RIGHTS-BASED UNION

2 Justifying the second enlargement: promoting interests, consolidating

democracy or returning to the roots?

Susannah Verney

3 In spite of the costs? Moral constraints on Spain’s enlargement policy

Sonia Piedrafita

4 Turkey’s EU Politics: Consolidating democracy through enlargement?

Gamze Avci

PART II

THE EU AS AN IDENTITY-BASED COMMUNITY

5 The importance of solidarity: Denmark as a promoter of enlargement

Marianne Riddervold and Helene Sjursen

6 More than simply expanding markets: Germany and EU enlargement

Marcin Zaborowski

7 The case of Turkey: are some candidates more ‘European’ than others?

Åsa Lundgren

8 Protecting the idea of Europe: France and enlargement

Helene Sjursen and Børge Romsloe

PART III

BETWEEN NORMS AND INTERESTS: AMBIGUITY AS A CORE CHARACTERISTIC?

9 Probably a problem-solving regime, perhaps a rights-based union:

European integration in the Czech and Slovak political discourse

Petr Drulák

10 Double standards? Minority protection as a condition for membership

Guido Scwellnus

11 Conclusion: the European Union between values and rights

Helene Sjursen

Bibliography

Biography

Helene Sjursen is Senior Researcher at ARENA, Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.

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