The EU's eastward enlargement : Central and Eastern Europe's strategies for development / Yoji Koyama (Niigata University, Japan).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koyama, Yōji., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union--Europe, Eastern.

European Union.

Eastern Europe.

European Union--Europe, Central.

Central Europe.

Physical Description:

xxii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific, [2015]

Summary:

Owing to the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 and subsequently the Eurozone crisis, the accession of Central and Eastern European countries to the European Union and the Eurozone has not been an easy one. The EU's Eastward Enlargement analyses challenges that these countries currently face in their pursuit of economic self-reliance. Covering a period from the second half of the 1980s to the present, Yoji Koyama provides unique and objective analyses of the European Union and the Euro system from a non-European's perspective. He offers a detailed reexamination of the fundamental problems of the European Union, which in turn have affected the autonomous development of countries such as Poland, the former Yugoslavia, Albania, and the Baltic States. This book is a useful addition to the scholarship available on the Euro system and Central and Eastern European countries. It will help readers gain a more holistic understanding of the ongoing Eurozone crisis and the future of the Eurozone project. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I System Change and Economic Transformation 17

Chapter 1 System Change in Central and Eastern European Countries and Their EU Integration 19

Chapter 2 Poland's Economic Development 55

Part II The Western Balkans and the EU's Southeastward Enlargement 85

Chapter 3 Problems Regarding Kosovo's Independence 87

Chapter 4 An Overview of South Eastern Europe 113

Chapter 5 Croatia's EU Accession: The Second Greece? 145

Chapter 6 Serbia's Transition with 10 Years Lag and the European Integration 173

Chapter 7 A Thorny Path of Economic Development: Case of Macedonia 203

Chapter 8 Albania's Way to EU Accession and Its Challenges 225

Part III The Global Financial Crisis and the Eurozone Crisis 257

Chapter 9 Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Baltic States: Focus on Latvia 259

Chapter 10 Slovenia's Success Story and Its Pitfall 285

Chapter 11 Eurozone Crisis and New EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe 325

Chapter 12 Conclusion 359.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-398) and index.

ISBN:

9789814602457

9814602450

OCLC:

906009897