Eu Enlargement And Socialization

Author : Stefan Engert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135168087

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EU Enlargement and Socialization by Stefan Engert Pdf

The European Union’s enlargement has been considered a success story – apart from Cyprus and Turkey. This book looks at the EU’s expansion and examines its effectiveness in terms of international socialization and compliance, focussing specifically on the socialization of Turkey and Cyprus into the Western community. Although NATO-member Turkey submitted its membership application long before the end of the Cold War, the Kemalist state still struggles to become the first Muslim EU member state. Cyprus was allowed to join the organization in 2004, but the island remains a divided entity. Providing a comprehensive theoretical perspective, the book is divided into three parts and investigates three questions: Why expand? From an EU / international organizations perspective. Why join? From an applicants’ perspective. Why comply? Exploring why a state would choose to adapt to the EU’s fundamental norms and rules from a candidates’ perspective. Contradicting the impression that the latest round of EU enlargement has been a model story of smooth and effective socialization from top to bottom, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of the EU, European politics, international relations and particularly those interested in Turkey and Cyprus.

Author : F. Schimmelfennig,S. Engert,H. Knobel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230625129

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International Socialization in Europe by F. Schimmelfennig,S. Engert,H. Knobel Pdf

At the end of the Cold War, the Western international community embarked on a large-scale project of promoting democratic change and consolidation in Eastern Europe. This book explains its mixed results. It examines the strategies of European organizations and the conditions of their success and failure.

Author : Sofia Centăr za Ikonomičesko Razvitie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9549821315

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EU Enlargement and Its Impact on the Social Policy and Labor Markets of Accession and Non-accession Countries by Sofia Centăr za Ikonomičesko Razvitie Pdf

Author : Fergus Carr,Andrew Massey
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847201577

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Public Policy and the New European Agendas by Fergus Carr,Andrew Massey Pdf

This broad and all-encompassing study focuses on Europe s new policy agendas. It brings together international academic experts on a range of policies to discuss Europe s place in the world and its relationship to the USA and beyond. This book concentrates on two key themes of particular salience for policy makers: the enlargement of the EU and the place of Europe in international politics. An expansive list of important policy areas within these themes is explored, including: enlargement political and constitutional implications and international socialization of central and eastern Europe Europe and the USA: security and defence policy, trade, finance and development institutional development and external relations in justice and home affairs before and after September 11 international terrorism, EU immigration and asylum and borders policy human rights and civil rights agriculture, environmental policy and regional policy pensions and ageing in Europe. This book constitutes a major contribution to achieving a deeper understanding of European integration and the barriers to integration within the context of global and multi-level governance. As such, it will be of enormous interest to an extensive audience including academics, researchers, students, policy makers and practitioners in the fields of political studies, international relations, public policy, European studies, US studies and security studies.

Author : Guglielmo Meardi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136575891

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Social Failures of EU Enlargement by Guglielmo Meardi Pdf

Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim? Based on fifteen years of fieldwork research across Central and Eastern Europe and on migrants in the UK and Germany, this book provides a less glittering answer. The EU has betrayed hopes of social cohesion: social regulations have been forgotten, multinationals use threats of relocations, and workers, left without institutional channels to voice their concerns, have reacted by leaving their countries en masse. Yet migration, for many, increases social vulnerability. Drawing on Hirschman’s concepts of ‘Exit’ and ‘Voice’, the book traces the origins of such failures in the management of EU enlargement as a pure economic and market-creating exercise, neglecting the inherently political nature of labour relations. The reinforcement of market mechanisms without political counterbalances has resulted in an increase in opportunistic ‘exit’ behaviour by both employers and employees, and thereby in a worsening quality of democracy, at workplace, national and European levels. As a result of this process, the EU has become more similar to the North American Free Trade Agreement between USA, Canada and Mexico, where social rights are marginalized and economic integration does not translate into better development.

Author : Jeffrey T. Checkel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139461375

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International Institutions and Socialization in Europe by Jeffrey T. Checkel Pdf

Since the path-breaking work of Karl Deutsch on security communities and Ernst Haas on European integration, it has been clear that international institutions may create senses of community and belonging beyond the nation state. Put differently, they can socialize. Yet the mechanisms underlying such dynamics have been unclear. This volume explores these mechanisms of international community building, from a resolutely eclectic stand point. Rationalism is thus the social theory of choice for some contributors, while others are more comfortable with social constructivism. This problem-driven perspective and the theoretical bridge building it are the cutting edge in international relations theory. By providing more fined-grained arguments on precisely how international institutions matter, such an approach sheds crucial light on the complex relationship between states and institutions, between rational choice and social constructivism, and, in our case, between Europe and the nation state.

Author : C. Ban
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137316462

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Management and Culture in an Enlarged European Commission by C. Ban Pdf

This book explores how the European Commission faced the challenge of enlargement. Based on extensive interviews, the work provides a lively and readable picture of life within the Commission, exploring how thousands of newcomers were recruited and socialized and how they changed the organization, including its gender balance.

Author : John O'Brennan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134234394

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The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union by John O'Brennan Pdf

In May 2004, eight former communist states in Central and Eastern Europe acceded to the European Union. This new book examines the Eastern expansion of the EU through a tripartite structure, developing an empirical, conceptual and institutional analysis to provide a rounded and substantive account of EU enlargement, with new theoretical insights. The foreword is by written by Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament. John O'Brennan also explores: why the EU decided to expand its membership what factors drove this process forward? how did the institutional environment of the EU influence enlargement outcomes? In this context he comprehensively covers the role of the European Council, Commission and Parliament. This important volume will of great interest to students and scholars of European politics and European Union studies.

Author : Olga A. Avdeyeva
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438455938

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Defending Women's Rights in Europe by Olga A. Avdeyeva Pdf

Comparative analysis of gender equality reforms enacted in ten post-communist states who became members of the European Union. Between 2004 and 2007, ten post-communist Eastern European states became members of the European Union (EU). To do so, these nations had to meet certain EU accession requirements, including antidiscrimination reforms. While attaining EU membership was an incredible achievement, many scholars and experts doubted the sustainability of accession-linked reforms. Would these nations comply with EU directives on gender equality? To explore this question, Defending Women’s Rights in Europe presents a unique analysis of detailed original comparative data on state compliance with EU gender equality requirements. It features a comprehensive quantitative analysis combined with rigorous insightful case studies of reforms in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania. Olga A. Avdeyeva reveals that policy and institutional reforms developed furthest in those states where women’s advocacy NGOs managed to form coalitions with governing political parties. After becoming members of the EU, the governments did not abolish these policies and institutions despite the costs and lack of popular support. Reputational concerns prevented state elites from policy dismantling, but gender equality policies and institutions became marginalized on the state agenda after accession. Olga A. Avdeyeva is Associate Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago.

Author : Gergana Noutcheva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415596848

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European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession by Gergana Noutcheva Pdf

European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession analyses the EU' s influence in the Balkans. It studies the compliance responses of the Balkan countries to the EU' s pre-accession conditions, and how these responses have been affected by domestic views of the overall purpose of the EU' s policy in the region. The book offers an explanation of how the statehood of a would-be EU member affects the policy and politics of conditionality at the EU level and the politics of compliance at domestic level. The book will be ...

Author : Wojciech Sadurski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191631078

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Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe by Wojciech Sadurski Pdf

After the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the newly democratized countries of this region joined two main pan-European political and legal structures: the Council of Europe and the European Union. This book shows how the Eastward enlargement of these two structures fostered the 'constitutionalization' both of the Council of Europe and of the EU. Prompted by the enlargement of the Council of Europe and the admission of a number of countries which brought unique and often more substantial problems onto the Court's agenda, the main judicial body of the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, became a quasi 'constitutional court' of Europe. This book demonstrates that this was primarily as a result of the widening of its agenda and the resulting need to make activist decisions about the compatibility of national laws with the European Convention. In terms of the EU, the book shows that the enlargement (first prospective, and then, actual) has been an important agenda-setter for the constitutionalization of the EU; in particular, for openly placing the issue of fundamental rights on the EU agenda as a legitimate and indispensable matter of concern for the EU. But the 'constitutional synergies' were a two-way street: the accession to both pan-European structures has also affected the development of democratic constitutionalism in CEE states. It has raised difficult issues regarding the relationships between national sovereignty, democracy, and human rights that CEE policy makers have grappled with; these issues and responses by CEE member states have had implications for the 'old' EU member states as well. These dynamics are explored through various case studies, providing a new perspective on the development of legal norms and institutions within European supranational bodies.

Author : Mats Braun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317139157

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Europeanization of Environmental Policy in the New Europe by Mats Braun Pdf

Prior to the European Union (EU) 2004/2007 enlargement there were several predictions that this event would hamper progressive decision-making within the EU on environmental policy. It was believed that the new member states had adopted EU rules as a consequence of the EU's conditionality and consequently they would rather slow down the reform speed in the field after accession. In this book, Mats Braun offers an up-to-date account of how post-communist member states have handled policy initiatives in the field of environmental policy after accession. Using detailed case studies of how Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania dealt with two different EU policy initiatives - REACH and the Climate-Energy Package - he explores whether social norms and the process of socialization can help us understand why the track record of new member states in the area of environmental policy is more varied than was originally envisaged prior to enlargement.

Author : T. Flockhart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230523067

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Socializing Democratic Norms by T. Flockhart Pdf

This volume offers a timely and important study on how norms are transferred from the international into the domestic domain through processes of socialization. It seeks to understand the process of change in post-Cold War Europe from a divided continent into a community with a common identity, based on shared values and ideas. It also offers an explanation for why the process of change has occurred easily in some countries and with more difficulty or not at all in others.

Author : Frank Schimmelfennig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521535255

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The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe by Frank Schimmelfennig Pdf

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Author : J. Hughes,G. Sasse,Claire Gordon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230503182

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Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe by J. Hughes,G. Sasse,Claire Gordon Pdf

This book is a study of EU conditionality and compliance during the enlargement to the Central and Eastern European candidate countries. EU conditionality for membership is widely understood as having been a driving force for Europeanization, providing incentives and sanctions for compliance or non-compliance with EU norms, such as the 'Copenhagen Criteria' and the adoption of the acquis communautaire . By taking regional policy and regionalization as a case study, this book provides a comparative analysis of the effects of conditionality on the Central and East European countries and explores the many paradoxes and weaknesses in the use of EU conditionality over time.