The Enlargement of Europe

by Stuart Croft, John Redmond, G. Wyn Rees, and Mark Webber

• ISBN13: 9780719049705
• ISBN10: 0719049709
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-07-02
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

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, NATO, 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?

Author Biography

Stuart Croft is Professor of International Relations at the University of Birmingham. John Redmond is Professor of European Studies and Jean Monnet Chair in the Political Economy of European Integration at the University of Birmingham. G. Wyn Rees is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester. Mark Webber is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Loughborough.

Table of Contents

List of tables	viii
Series editors' foreword	ix
Foreword	x
Acknowledgements	xii
Notes on the authors	xiii
List of abbreviations	xiv
Map of Europe and east central Asia	xvi
Organisations, Europe and enlargement	1	(21)
The enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation	22	(33)
The enlargement of the European Union	55	(34)
The enlargement of the Western European Union	89	(23)
The enlargement of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe	112	(30)
The enlargement of the Council of Europe	142	(22)
Conclusion	164	(11)
Appendix 1. Membership of Euro-Atlantic international organisations	175	(1)
Appendix 2. Forms of association with Euro-Atlantic international organisations	176	(3)
Index	179