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The EU's Transformative Power. Europeanization Through Conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe.
Heather Grabbe
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Description for The EU's Transformative Power. Europeanization Through Conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe.
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPSN2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 470.
Between 1989 and 2004, the EU's conditionality for membership transformed Central and East Europe. The EU had enormous potential power over the whole range of domestic politics in the candidate countries. However, the EU was able to use that power at a few key points in the process leading to their accession. The EU's long-term influence worked primarily through soft power and through voluntary rather than coercive means. During the membership preparations, the EU built many different routes of influence into the candidate countries' domestic policy-making through 'Europeanization'. The Central and East Europeans voluntarily took ... Read more
Between 1989 and 2004, the EU's conditionality for membership transformed Central and East Europe. The EU had enormous potential power over the whole range of domestic politics in the candidate countries. However, the EU was able to use that power at a few key points in the process leading to their accession. The EU's long-term influence worked primarily through soft power and through voluntary rather than coercive means. During the membership preparations, the EU built many different routes of influence into the candidate countries' domestic policy-making through 'Europeanization'. The Central and East Europeans voluntarily took ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403949035
SKU
V9781403949035
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99-15
About Heather Grabbe
Heather Grabbe is Director of the Open Society European Policy Institute, Brussels, Belgium. 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The EU's Transformative Power. Europeanization Through Conditionality in Central and Eastern Europe.
"The EU's big bang enlargement in 2004 was a major milestone in the history of European integration. Thanks to the carrots and sticks of conditionality the EU had enormous potential influence. In her detailed, meticulous and landmark study, focusing in particular on the single market and Schengen, Heather Grabbe demonstrates how and why the EU's 'transformative power' varied across the ... Read more