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The EU's transformative power : Europeanization through conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe / Heather Grabbe.

By: Grabbe, Heather.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Palgrave studies in European Union politics: Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Description: xvii, 231 p. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781403949035; 1403949034.Subject(s): European Union -- Europe, Eastern | European Union -- Europe, Central | European cooperation | International law | Politics & government | International institutions | Political science & theory | Public administration | International relations | LawDDC classification: 341.2422 GRA Summary: Between 1989 & 2004, the EU's conditionality for membership transformed Central and Eastern Europe. This book demonstrates how that transformation worked in practice.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Between 1989 and 2004, the EU's conditionality for membership transformed Central and East Europe. The EU had enormous potential power over the whole range of domestic politics in the candidate countries. However, the EU was able to use that power at a few key points in the process leading to their accession. The EU's long-term influence worked primarily through soft power and through voluntary rather than coercive means. During the membership preparations, the EU built many different routes of influence into the candidate countries' domestic policy-making through 'Europeanization'. The Central and East Europeans voluntarily took on the Union's norms and methods, guided by the European Commission, in a massive transfer of policies and institutions. However, the EU missed important opportunities to effect change as well. The EU's Transformative Power explores in detail how the EU used its influence to control the movement of people across Europe, through both coercive use of conditionality and voluntary methods of Europeanization.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Between 1989 & 2004, the EU's conditionality for membership transformed Central and Eastern Europe. This book demonstrates how that transformation worked in practice.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Tables (p. x)
  • Abstract (p. xi)
  • About the Author (p. xii)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
  • Abbreviations (p. xiv)
  • Chronology (p. xv)
  • Chapter 1 Introduction (p. 1)
  • 1.1 Europeanisation (p. 4)
  • 1.2 The structure of this book (p. 5)
  • Chapter 2 Accession Conditionality and its Implications (p. 7)
  • 2.1 The first phase of EU eastern accession policy 1989-97 (p. 7)
  • 2.2 Tightened conditionality 1998-2002 (p. 14)
  • 2.3 Negotiations 1998-2002 (p. 18)
  • 2.4 Deconstructing the EU's accession agenda (p. 22)
  • 2.5 The political context for accession policy in the EU (p. 25)
  • 2.6 Analytical difficulties in interpreting the EU's accession conditionality (p. 31)
  • Conclusions (p. 37)
  • Chapter 3 Europeanisation, Negotiations and Influence (p. 39)
  • 3.1 The case for comparability with the existing EU (p. 40)
  • 3.2 Using Europeanisation as a conceptual framework (p. 44)
  • 3.3 Characterising the EU-CEE relationship (p. 52)
  • 3.4 Moving towards explanation: Six concepts (p. 55)
  • Conclusions (p. 73)
  • Chapter 4 Routes of Europeanisation and Constraints on EU Influence (p. 75)
  • 4.1 Europeanisation mechanisms in the accession process (p. 75)
  • 4.2 The role of intervening variables (p. 89)
  • 4.3 Constraints on EU influence: Diffuseness and uncertainty (p. 90)
  • Conclusions (p. 96)
  • Chapter 5 The Receiving End: Politics in the Candidate Countries (p. 97)
  • 5.1 Diverse paths from communism (p. 97)
  • 5.2 The institutional legacies of communism (p. 102)
  • 5.3 Political salience (p. 107)
  • 5.4 Strategies of adaptation to the EU (p. 110)
  • 5.5 The choice of cases: Countries and policy areas (p. 113)
  • Conclusions (p. 115)
  • Chapter 6 Free Movement of Persons in the Single Market (p. 116)
  • 6.1 Background to the EU's approach (p. 117)
  • 6.2 The EU's agenda as presented to the CEE candidates (p. 121)
  • 6.3 The candidates' responses (p. 130)
  • 6.4 Negotiations (p. 133)
  • 6.5 Explaining outcomes (p. 144)
  • Conclusions (p. 147)
  • Chapter 7 Movement of Persons under Schengen (p. 150)
  • 7.1 Background to the EU's approach (p. 151)
  • 7.2 The EU's agenda as presented to the CEE candidates (p. 153)
  • 7.3 The candidates' responses (p. 166)
  • 7.4 Negotiations (p. 177)
  • 7.5 Explaining outcomes (p. 180)
  • Conclusions (p. 184)
  • Chapter 8 Explaining how EU Influence Worked (p. 186)
  • 8.1 The findings of the case-studies (p. 186)
  • 8.2 The roles of the intervening variables (p. 188)
  • 8.3 Explanation (p. 193)
  • Conclusions (p. 199)
  • Chapter 9 Conclusion (p. 200)
  • 9.1 Implications for the study of Europeanisation (p. 204)
  • 9.2 What implications for democracy? (p. 207)
  • Notes (p. 209)
  • Bibliography (p. 213)
  • Principal EU documents (p. 213)
  • References (p. 214)
  • Index (p. 227)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Heather Grabbe is Advisor to the European Commissioner for Enlargement in Brussels, and Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics.