1st Edition
The Politics of European Union Enlargement Theoretical Approaches
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 original articles that combine a theoretical approach with comparative analyses.
These expert contributors focus on the broader theoretical debates and their implications for the enlargement of the EU, as well as placing the enlargement of the EU within the broader context of the expansion of international organisations and the study of institutions in international relations.
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
