1st Edition

Explaining Policy Change in the European Union's Eastern Neighbourhood

Edited By Julia Langbein, Tanja A. Borzel Copyright 2014
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

This edited volume discusses and challenges the conventional wisdoms dominating the scholarship on policy change in the EU's Eastern neighbourhood countries. Drawing upon new empirical evidence underpinning the contributions to this volume, the authors argue that compliance with, or convergence to, EU policies continue despite high costs, limited capacities and the lack of EU membership... Read more

1. Introduction: Explaining Policy Change in the European Union’s Eastern Neighbourhood Julia Langbein and Tanja A. Börzel

2. Migration, Energy and Good Governance in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood Esther Ademmer and Tanja A. Börzel

3. Selective Adoption of EU Environmental Norms in Ukraine. Convergence à la Carte Aron Buzogány

4. Unpacking the Russian and EU Impact on Policy Change in the Eastern Neighbourhood: The Case of Ukraine’s Telecommunications and Food Safety Julia Langbein

5. Shaping Convergence with the EU in Foreign Policy and State Aid in Post-Orange Ukraine: Weak External Incentives, Powerful Veto Players Antoaneta Dimitrova and Rilka Dragneva

Biography

Julia Langbein is Senior Lecturer at the Center for European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Scientific Coordinator of the FP7 research project ‘Maximizing the integration capacity of the European Union. Prospects for and challenges of enlargement and beyond.’

Tanja A. Börzel is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Berlin Center for European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.