Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe

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Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe is written by J. Hughes and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230503187 (ISBN 10) and 9780230503182 (ISBN 13).

This book is a study of EU conditionality and compliance during the enlargement to the Central and Eastern European candidate countries. EU conditionality for membership is widely understood as having been a driving force for Europeanization, providing incentives and sanctions for compliance or non-compliance with EU norms, such as the 'Copenhagen Criteria' and the adoption of the acquis communautaire . By taking regional policy and regionalization as a case study, this book provides a comparative analysis of the effects of conditionality on the Central and East European countries and explores the many paradoxes and weaknesses in the use of EU conditionality over time.