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The Community Trap: Liberal Norms, Rhetorical Action, and the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union

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Schimmelfennig, Frank
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Why did the European Union (EU) decide to expand to Central andEastern Europe? More precisely, since it is still uncertain when andunder which conditions Eastern enlargement will actually take place, whydid the EU open the accession process with the ten associated Centraland Eastern European countries in March 1998 and start concreteaccession negotiations with (only) five of them (the Czech Republic,Estonia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia)? My analysis is embedded in thecurrent great debate between rationalist and sociological orconstructivist approaches to the study of international institutions inthe international relations discipline.

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Volume (Year): 55 (2003)
Issue (Month): 01 (July)
Pages: 47-80
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