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 …

Two events in 2013 showed the opportunities, risks and challenges of EU enlargement:
Croatia joined the Union, having been at war only two decades previously, while the …

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White, Paul G. Lewis & Judy Batt FIVE Page 2 Developments in Central and East European …

This article provides an up-to-date overview of the problems connected with European
integration. It focuses on the phenomenon of 'enlargement fatigue'and examines its meaning …

Why are the sociology of knowledge about the EU as a global actor and policy production of
the EU's external actions always talked about in dichotomous terms of one approach 'versus' …

Concerns that eastward enlargement will spur a race to the bottom in wages and social
protection figured prominently in two cases before the ECJ: Laval and Viking. Each case …

This article makes the case for integrating informal, social and minilateral dynamics in
analyses of 'differentiated integration'in the European Union (EU) context. In EU studies …

This article examines how Norway, a veteran EU outsider by choice, works on a day-to-day
basis to compensate for its lack of formal voice in EU institutions. After Norwegian voters' …

Enlargement is widely regarded as the most successful external relations' tool of the
European Union (EU). By offering the prospect of membership to the countries of Central …

This article explores the spatial dimension of polity making in Europe by reference to
seemingly contradictory topologies of European space and how they produce a complex …