1st Edition

The Enlargement of the European Union Issues and Strategies

    This volume looks at the process of enlargment which the European Union is currently undertaking, focusing on both the economic and political dimensions of the subject. The volume examines how enlargment has evolved and looks at the roles and relations of the different actors - member states, applicant states and EU institutions. With contributors coming from different disciplinary backgrounds, the volume offers an unusually rich array of perspectives on one of the most significant political developments of recent years.

    Part I: Setting the Scene, Europe growing together, Chapter 1. Introduction: The Enlargement of the European Union: Dealing with Complexity, Chapter 2. Reintegrating Europe: Economic Aspects, Chapter 3. The Role of the Economic Commission for Europe. Part II: The Questionnaires: Getting to Know the Enlargement Challenge, Chapter 4. The Enlargement: The European Commission's Viewpoint, Chapter 5. Implications of the Enlargement of the Common Agricultural Policy, Chapter 6. The Economy of Enlarged Europe: An Eastern and Central European States' Viewpoint. Part III: From the Questionnaires to the IGC, Chapter 7. The European Union at the Crossroads, Chapter 8. The IGC: facing the Enlargement's Dilemma. Part IV: The Geopolitical Consequences of the Enlargement, Chapter 9. The New Pattern of International Relations in Europe, Chapter 10. The Enlargement: Transforming Western Europe, Chapter 11. The Strategies of Enlargement, Chapter 12. The Common Foreign and Security Policy after Enlargement, Postscript, Chapter 13. From this Point Onwards: Searching for the Path, Bibliography.

    Biography

    Curzon Price, Victoria; Landau, Alice; Whitman, Richard