The enlargement of Europe / Stuart Croft ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Croft, Stuart.

Series:

Political analyses

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European cooperation.

International agencies--Europe.

International agencies.

Europe.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

European Union.

Western European Union.

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Council of Europe.

Physical Description:

xv, 188 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

This book examines the debates surrounding the expansion of the five main European institutions since the end of the Cold War. These institutions, all founded during the Cold War -- the European Union, NAT0, the Western European Union, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe -- have had to adjust to the dramatic changes that have accompanied the collapse of Communism. The extent and speed with which the process of enlargement takes place will be the most important factor in determining how the continent develops. Focusing on three main questions, the contributors ask: Is there an accepted unitary vision as to how Europe should develop and is this vision guiding the process of enlargement, or are there competing visions between the different institutions that are resulting in a fragmentary approach? To what extent have there been separate motives for enlargement within each institution? Have these debates and policies been related to any overall framework? And has there been a deliberate policy by Western governments to indulge in "cost free" expansion, enlarging political areas first and leaving more difficult issues of security and economics to a later stage?

Contents:

1 Organisations, Europe and enlargement 1

2 The enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation 22

3 The enlargement of the European Union 55

4 The enlargement of the Western European Union 89

5 The enlargement of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe 112

6 The enlargement of the Council of Europe 142

Appendix 1. Membership of Euro-Atlantic international organisations 175

Appendix 2. Forms of association with Euro-Atlantic international organisations 176.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719049709

0719049717

OCLC:

41211926