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.

European Union--Europe, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : World Scientific, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Introduction

pt. I. System change and economic transformation. ch. 1. System change in central and eastern European countries and their EU integration

ch. 2. Poland's economic development

pt. II. The western Balkans and the EU's southeastward enlargement. ch. 3. Problems regarding Kosovo's independence

ch. 4. An overview of south eastern Europe

ch. 5. Croatia's EU accession: the second Greece?

ch. 6. Serbia's transition with 10 years lag and the European integration

ch. 7. A thorny path of economic development: case of Macedonia

ch. 8. Albania's way to EU accession and its challenges

pt. III. The global financial crisis and the Eurozone crisis. ch. 9. Impact of the global financial crisis on the Baltic states: focus on Latvia

ch. 10. Slovenia's success story and its pitfall

ch. 11. Eurozone crisis and new EU member states from central and eastern Europe

ch. 12. Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

981-4602-46-9

OCLC:

903891733