Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier

List of tables and figuresNote on contributorsPreface and acknowledgementsPart I Introduction1 The politics of EU enlargement: theoretical and comparative perspectivesFrank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich SedelmeierPart II The Politics of Accession in Applicant Countries 2 Scandinavia and Switzerland: small, successful and stubborn towards the EUSieglinde Gstöhl3 The demand-side politics of EU enlargement: democracy and the application for EU membershipWalter Mattli and Thomas Plümper 4 The struggle over EU enlargement: a historical materialist analysis of European integrationAndreas BielerPart III The Macro-Politics of Enlargement5 Constructing institutional interests: EU and NATO enlargementKarin M. Fierke and Antje Wiener6 Eastern enlargement: risk, rationality, and role-complianceUlrich Sedelmeier7 The community trap: liberal norms, rhetorical action and the eastern enlargement of the European UnionFrank Schimmelfennig8 Liberal community and enlargement: an event history analysis Frank Schimmelfennig9 Preferences, power, and equilibrium: the causes and consequences of EU enlargement Andrew Moravcsik and Milada Vachudova 10 Geopolitics and the eastern enlargement of the European Union Lars SkålnesPart IV The Substantive Politics of Enlargement11 Sectoral dynamics of EU enlargement: advocacy, access, and alliances in a composite policy Ulrich Sedelmeier12 Institutions, policy communities, and enlargement: British, Spanish and Central European accession negotiations in the agricultural sector Lorena RuanoPart V Theory, Enlargement and European Integration 13 Deepening and widening integration theory Markus Jachtenfuchs14 Enlarging the European Union: reflections on the challenge of analysis Helen Wallace

This is a key reference text presenting the latest first-rate approaches to the study of European enlargement.
Developed and significantly expanded from a special issue of the leading Journal of European Public Policy, this new volume draws on the insights from the recently emerging theoretically-informed literature on the EU's eastern enlargement and complements these studies with original articles that combine a theoretical approach with comparative analyses.
These expert contributors focus on the broader theoretical debates and their implications for the enlargement of the EU, as well as placing the enlargement of the EU within the broader context of the expansion of international organisations and the study of institutions in international relations.