The Europeanisation of candidate countries and new members is a rather recent research
area that has grown strongly since the early 2000s. Research in this area has developed …

ABSTRACT The European Union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic revealed changes
and continuity in the structure and the functioning of the European project. In lieu of a …

Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states
and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But controlling borders is about …

In the process of the EU's eastern enlargement, the Central and Eastern European countries
(CEECs) have undergone a major process of external governance. What are the main …

In May 2004, eight former Eastern Bloc countries joined the European Union: the three Baltic
republics, Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak republics, and Slovenia. What is involved …

Europe Undivided analyzes how an enlarging EU has facilitated a convergence toward
liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe …

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism-the first of its kind-offers a systematic
and wide-ranging survey of the scholarship on regionalism, regionalization, and regional …

The pension privatization trend that swept Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) between 1998
and 2004 presents a conundrum when viewed from the perspective of European Union (EU) …

Why Noncompliance traces the history of noncompliance within the European Union (EU),
focusing on which states continuously do or do not follow EU Law, why, and how that affects …

This book is based on research conducted within the framework of the Economic and Social
Research Council project 'Elites and Institutions in Regional and Local Governance in …