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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grabbe, Heather.

Series:

Palgrave studies in European Union politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union--Europe, Eastern.

European Union.

European Union--Europe, Central.

European cooperation.

Central Europe.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

xvii, 231 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

European Union's transformative power

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

The EU had enormous leverage to transform Central and Eastern Europe between the collapse of communism and the Union's first eastward enlargement. This book provides the first detailed analysis of how that influence worked. Heather Grabbe explores how the EU used its conditionality for membership to transfer its policies and institutional designs, focusing on measures to control the movement of people from East to West. She analyses how the Europeanization process interacted with post-communist politics, and with other external pressures.

The EU's Transformative Power finds that the EU's long-term influence worked through primarily through persuasion and voluntary adaptation, rather than exclusion and coercion. The EU's experience with its first enlargement thus provides important lessons on regime change, state-building and democratization.

Contents:

1.1 Europeanisation 4

Chapter 2 Accession Conditionality and its Implications 7

2.1 The first phase of EU eastern accession policy 1989-97 7

2.2 Tightened conditionality 1998-2002 14

2.3 Negotiations 1998-2002 18

2.4 Deconstructing the EU's accession agenda 22

2.5 The political context for accession policy in the EU 25

2.6 Analytical difficulties in interpreting the EU's accession conditionality 31

Chapter 3 Europeanisation, Negotiations and Influence 39

3.1 The case for comparability with the existing EU 40

3.2 Using Europeanisation as a conceptual framework 44

3.3 Characterising the EU-CEE relationship 52

3.4 Moving towards explanation: Six concepts 55

Chapter 4 Routes of Europeanisation and Constraints on EU Influence 75

4.1 Europeanisation mechanisms in the accession process 75

4.2 The role of intervening variables 89

4.3 Constraints on EU influence: Diffuseness and uncertainty 90

Chapter 5 The Receiving End: Politics in the Candidate Countries 97

5.1 Diverse paths from communism 97

5.2 The institutional legacies of communism 102

5.3 Political salience 107

5.4 Strategies of adaptation to the EU 110

5.5 The choice of cases: Countries and policy areas 113

Chapter 6 Free Movement of Persons in the Single Market 116

6.1 Background to the EU's approach 117

6.2 The EU's agenda as presented to the CEE candidates 121

6.3 The candidates' responses 130

6.4 Negotiations 133

6.5 Explaining outcomes 144

Chapter 7 Movement of Persons under Schengen 150

7.1 Background to the EU's approach 151

7.2 The EU's agenda as presented to the CEE candidates 153

7.3 The candidates' responses 166

7.4 Negotiations 177

7.5 Explaining outcomes 180

Chapter 8 Explaining how EU Influence Worked 186

8.1 The findings of the case-studies 186

8.2 The roles of the intervening variables 188

8.3 Explanation 193

9.1 Implications for the study of Europeanisation 204

9.2 What implications for democracy? 207

Principal EU documents 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index.

ISBN:

1403949034

OCLC:

63207671

Publisher Number:

9781403949035