1st Edition
Questioning EU Enlargement Europe in Search of Identity
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 for democratic principles and human rights?
Offering up-to-date studies of the EU enlargement processes and country-specific in-depth analyses, Questioning EU Enlargement will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of European studies, international relations and politics.
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.
