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

by Grabbe, Heather

• ISBN13: 9781403949035
• ISBN10: 1403949034
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave-Macmillan

Summary

In 2004, the European Union undertook an unprecedented addition of ten new countries. This will fundamentally change the EU, and the Union has already had a dramatic impact on the development of the new member states.The EU's Transformative Powerpresents a detailed analysis of how the EU has shaped countries of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism.

Author Biography

Heather Grabbe is Advisor to the Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn, and a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	x
Abstract	xi
About the Author	xii
Acknowledgements	xiii
Abbreviations	xiv
Chronology	xv
Introduction	1	(6)
Europeanisation	4	(1)
The structure of this book	5	(2)
Accession Conditionality and its Implications	7	(32)
The first phase of EU eastern accession policy 1989--97	7	(7)
Tightened conditionality 1998--2002	14	(4)
Negotiations 1998--2002	18	(4)
Deconstructing the EU's accession agenda	22	(3)
The political context for accession policy in the EU	25	(6)
Analytical difficulties in interpreting the EU's accession conditionality	31	(8)
Conclusions	37	(2)
Europeanisation, Negotiations and Influence	39	(36)
The case for comparability with the existing EU	40	(4)
Using Europeanisation as a conceptual framework	44	(8)
Characterising the EU-CEE relationship	52	(3)
Moving towards explanation: Six concepts	55	(20)
Conclusions	73	(2)
Routes of Europeanisation and Constraints on EU Influence	75	(22)
Europeanisation mechanisms in the accession process	75	(14)
The role of intervening variables	89	(1)
Constraints on EU influence: Diffuseness and uncertainty	90	(7)
Conclusions	96	(1)
The Receiving End: Politics in the Candidate Countries	97	(19)
Diverse paths from communism	97	(5)
The institutional legacies of communism	102	(5)
Political salience	107	(3)
Strategies of adaptation to the EU	110	(3)
The choice of cases: Countries and policy areas	113	(3)
Conclusions	115	(1)
Free Movement of Persons in the Single Market	116	(34)
Background to the EU's approach	117	(4)
The EU's agenda as presented to the CEE candidates	121	(9)
The candidates' responses	130	(3)
Negotiations	133	(11)
Explaining outcomes	144	(6)
Conclusions	147	(3)
Movement of Persons under Schengen	150	(36)
Background to the EU's approach	151	(2)
The EU's agenda as presented to the CEE candidates	153	(13)
The candidates' responses	166	(11)
Negotiations	177	(3)
Explaining outcomes	180	(6)
Conclusions	184	(2)
Explaining how EU Influence Worked	186	(14)
The findings of the case-studies	186	(2)
The roles of the intervening variables	188	(5)
Explanation	193	(7)
Conclusions	199	(1)
Conclusion	200	(9)
Implications for the study of Europeanisation	204	(3)
What implications for democracy?	207	(2)
Notes	209	(4)
Bibliography	213	(14)
Principal EU documents	213	(1)
References	214	(13)
Index	227