Research Catalog

Title

International socialization in Europe : European organizations, political conditionality and democratic change / Frank Schimmelfennig, Stefan Engert and Heiko Knobel.

Author

Schimmelfennig, Frank, 1963-

Publication

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Engert, Stefan.
• Knobel, Heiko.

Description

xvi, 291 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

At the end of the Cold War, the Western international community embarked on a large-scale project of promoting democratic change and consolidation in Eastern Europe. Fifteen years later, the results are mixed. Whereas some countries have become consolidated democracies and members of the EU and NATO, democratization is still unstable in the Balkans. In most of the former Soviet Union, autocracy rather than democracy was consolidated. This book explains the uneven international socialization in Europe. It examines the strategies of the EU, NATO, and other European organizations and the conditions under which they have been able to generate compliance with international norms of democracy, human rights, minority protection, and state-building. Detailed comparative case studies of Belarus, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Slovakia, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Cyprus, and Montenegro demonstrate the relevance of credible EU (and NATO) membership conditionality and domestic power costs of the target governments.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in European Union politics

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in European Union politics.

Subject

• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > General
• Comparative politics > Europe
• Democracy
• Democracy > Europe, Eastern
• Democratisering
• Droits de l'homme > Europe de l'Est
• Démocratie > Europe de l'Est
• Démocratisation > Europe de l'Est
• EU & European institutions > Europe
• Europe, Eastern > Economic integration
• International economic integration
• Internationale organisaties
• Minorités > Droits > Europe de l'Est
• Political science & theory > Europe
• Political structures: democracy > Europe
• Politics and Government
• Politieke socialisatie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-281) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Theory: Strategic Action in International Community -- European Socialization Agencies and Strategies -- Research Design: Variables, Cases and Methods -- Belarus -- Yugoslavia (Serbia) -- Turkey -- Slovakia -- Romania -- Estonia -- Latvia -- Northern Cyprus -- Montenegro -- Comparative Analysis: Conditions of Compliance -- Dynamics of Socialization.

ISBN

• 0230005284 (cloth)
• 9780230005280

LCCN

^^2006046057

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library