The EU's Transformative Power Europeanization through Conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe

by Grabbe, Heather

• ISBN13: 9781137574770
• ISBN10: 1137574771
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-12-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Between 1989 and 2004, the EU's conditionality for membership had major transformative effects in Central and East Europe. The author analyses how that transformation worked in practice. She explores how the EU used its bargaining power coercively at certain key points in the membership preparations, but concludes that its primary method was soft power, through 'Europeanizing' the candidates into its norms and methods. This book explores in detail how the EU used its influence to control the movement of people, through both conditionality and Europeanization.

Author Biography

Heather Grabbe is Director of the Open Society European Policy Institute / Open Society Foundations EU Affairs, USA. From 2004 to 2009 she was senior advisor to then European Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn, responsible in his cabinet for the Balkans and Turkey. Before joining the commission, she was deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, the London-based think tank, where she published widely on EU enlargement and other European issues. Previous research posts include the London School of Economics (LSE), the Royal Institute for International Affairs and Wolfson College, Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Abstract
About the Author
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Acknowldgements
1. Introduction
2. Accession Conditionality and its Implications
3. Europeanization, Negotiations and Influence
4. Routes of Europeanization and Constraints on EU Influence
5. The Receiving End: Politics in the Candidate Countries
6. Free Movement of Persons in the Single Market
7. Movement of Persons under Schengen
8. Explaining How EU Influence Worked
9. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index