Enlargement
EU-Links
EU efforts towards a better environment in the European neighbourhood.
Latest developments and general context of the relation between the area of freedom, security and justice and enlargement.
The website of DG Enlargement contains the important enlargement
policy documents, country progress reports
and partnerships, information on the technical and financial assistance
mechanisms etc. It containsFurther on it has specific country sections
on the candidate (Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and
Turkey) and the potential candidate countries (Albania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo under UNSCR 1244).Especially the 'How does it work?' section is very interesting.
Summaries of legislation on ongoing and past enlargement processes. For more up to date information see DG Enlargement.
Links
Daily news on the EU's relations with its neighbours and the enlargement process.
Provides documents containing references to recent literature (2007-2008) arranged by subject (arms control, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, China and Taiwan, Development issues, energy supply, enlargement, environmental issues, European integration, European law, European Security, external relations of the EU, human rights, international trade, islam, NATO, peacekeeping, Russia, Sub-Sahara Africa, terrorism, UN, US, etc.)
Literature
Maresceau, M., & Lannon, E. (Eds.) (2001) The EUs Enlargement and Mediterranean Strategies. A Comparative Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sedelmeier, U. (2005) Constructing the Path to Eastern Enlargement. The uneven policy impact of EU identity, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet, G. (2006) The Future of European Foreign, Security and defence Policy after Enlargement. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
Sjursen, H. (Ed.). (2006) Questioning EU Enlargement: Europe in Search of Identity. London: Routledge.
Zielonka, J. (2006) Europe as Empire. The Nature of the Enlarged European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vassiliou, G. (Ed.) (2007) The Accession Story: the EU from fifteen to twenty-five countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Grabar-Kitarovic, K. (2007) 'The stabilisation and association process: the EU's Soft power at its best', European Foreign Affairs Review, 12(2), 121-125.
Brown, D. & Shepherd, A.J.K. (Eds.) (2007) The security dimensions of EU enlargement. Wider Europe, weaker Europe? Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Lampe, K. (2007) Human Rights in the Context of EU Foreign Policy and Enlargement. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Epstein, R. A. & Sedelmeier, U. (2008) ‘Special Issue - Beyond conditionality: international institutions in postcommunist Europe after enlargement’, Journal of European Public Policy, 15(6), 795-955.
Van Elsuwege, P. (2008) From Soviet Republics to EU Member States. A legal and political analysis of the Baltic states' accession to the EU, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Quadrio Curzio, A. & Fortis, M. (Eds.) (2008) The EU and the Economies of the Eastern European Enlargement. Heidelberg: Springer.
De Ridder, E., Schrijvers, A., & Vos, H. (2008) 'Civilian Power Europe and Eastern Enlargement: The More the Merrier?' In J. Orbie (Ed.), Europe's Global Role: External Relations of the European Union. Aldershot: Ashgate, 239-258.
Schimmelfennig, F. & Sedelmeier, U. (2009) The Politics of European Union Enlargement: Theoretical Approaches. London: Routledge.
Thomassen, J. (Ed.) (2009) The legitimacy of the european union after enlargement. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lauristin, M. & Vihalemm, P. (Eds.) (2009) Estonia's transition to the EU. Twenty years on. London: Routledge.
Mälksoo, M. (2009) The politics of becoming European. A study of Polish and Baltic post-cold war security imaginaries. London: Routledge.
Börzel, T. A. (Ed.). (2009). Coping with Accession to the European Union. New Modes of Environmental Governance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Morlino, L. & Sadurski, W. (Eds.) (2010) Democratization and the European Union. Comparing Central and Eastern European post-communist countries. London: Routledge.
Ilonszki, G. (Ed.) (2010) Perceptions of the European Union in new Member states. A comparative perspective. London: Routledge.
Engert, S. (2010) EU enlargement and socialization. Turkey and Cyprus. London: Routledge
Dyson, Kenneth, and Angelos Sepos, (eds.) (2010) Which Europe? The politics of differentiated integration. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bjarnason M.(2010) The political economy of joining the European Union: Iceland's position at the beginning of the 21st century. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Stivachtis, Yannis A., and Mark Webber. (2011) Special Issue: Regional International Society in a Post-Enlargement Europe. Journal of European Integration 33 (2):101-249.
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