1st Edition

Romania and The European Union From Marginalisation to Membership?

198 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the dynamics behind Romania’s relationship with the European Union from the collapse of the Ceaucescu regime in 1989, to its recent accession to the EU in 2007. As a completely up-to-date and detailed study, it identifies key developments in EU-Romania relations, as well as the challenges Romania faced in its efforts move from the margins of the European integration to EU... Read more

Introduction  1. From Isolation to Incomplete Rehabilitation: The Politics of Cautious Rapprochement, 1989-1997  2. 1997-2007 – From Rehabilitation to Accession: The Struggle for a Credible Candidacy  3. A Maturing Democracy? Romania’s Political System on the Road to EU Membership  4. Stop-Go Economic Transition: The Long Road to a Functioning Market Economy  5. Recasting the Romanian State: The Challenge of Good Governance  6. Plugging a Leaky Border: Complying with the Justice and Home Affairs Acquis and Preparing for Schengen.  Conclusion

Biography

Dimitris Papadimitriou is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at The University of Manchester, and a visiting Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory at the LSE. In 2006-7, he was S. J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University. He is the author of Negotiating the New Europe.

David Phinnemore is Senior Lecturer in European Integration, and Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Integration at Queen's University Belfast. He is editor of The EU and Romania, and co-author of Understanding the European Constitution (also published by Routledge).

"Recommended.  All undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections." -- CHOICE, Jan 2009 Vol. 46 No. 05