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The Politics of European Union Enlargement: Theoretical Approaches book cover

1st Edition

The Politics of European Union Enlargement Theoretical Approaches

Edited By Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier Copyright 2005
316 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge
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This is a key reference text presenting the latest first-rate approaches to the study of European enlargement. Developed and significantly expanded from a special issue of the leading Journal of European Public Policy , this new volume draws on the insights from the recently emerging theoretically-informed literature on the EU's eastern enlargement and complements these studies with... Read more

List of tables and figures

Note on contributors

Preface and acknowledgements

Part I Introduction

1 The politics of EU enlargement: theoretical and comparative perspectives

Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier

Part II The Politics of Accession in Applicant Countries

2 Scandinavia and Switzerland: small, successful and stubborn towards the EU

Sieglinde Gstöhl

3 The demand-side politics of EU enlargement: democracy and the application for EU membership

Walter Mattli and Thomas Plümper

4 The struggle over EU enlargement: a historical materialist analysis of European integration

Andreas Bieler

Part III The Macro-Politics of Enlargement

5 Constructing institutional interests: EU and NATO enlargement

Karin M. Fierke and Antje Wiener

6 Eastern enlargement: risk, rationality, and role-compliance

Ulrich Sedelmeier

7 The community trap: liberal norms, rhetorical action and the eastern enlargement of the European Union

Frank Schimmelfennig

8 Liberal community and enlargement: an event history analysis

Frank Schimmelfennig

9 Preferences, power, and equilibrium: the causes and consequences of EU enlargement

Andrew Moravcsik and Milada Vachudova

10 Geopolitics and the eastern enlargement of the European Union

Lars Skålnes

Part IV The Substantive Politics of Enlargement

11 Sectoral dynamics of EU enlargement: advocacy, access, and alliances in a composite policy

Ulrich Sedelmeier

12 Institutions, policy communities, and enlargement: British, Spanish and Central European accession negotiations in the agricultural sector

Lorena Ruano

Part V Theory, Enlargement and European Integration

13 Deepening and widening integration theory

Markus Jachtenfuchs

14 Enlarging the European Union: reflections on the challenge of analysis

Helen Wallace

Biography

Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier

‘It was certainly high time for a book that identifies the most important novel trends in the study of how this new Europe came about.’ - West European Politics, Vol. 29

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