The Enlargement of the European Union: Issues and Strategies

This volume looks at the process of enlargment which the European Union is currently undertaking, focusing on both the economic and political dimensions of the subject. The volume examines how enlargment has evolved and looks at the roles and relations of the different actors - member states, applicant states and EU institutions. With contributors coming from different disciplinary backgrounds, the volume offers an unusually rich array of perspectives on one of the most significant political developments of recent years.

Lisbeth Aggestam lectures on international politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Stockholm. Leszek Balcerowicz is Vice First Minister, Minister of Finance of Poland. He is also Professor at the School of Economics in Warsaw. Carol Cosgrove-Sacks is currently Director of the Trade Division in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva and is also a Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. Victoria Curzon Price is Professor of Economics at the University of Geneva. Christian Deubner is currently Director of the Research Group I for European integration and international relations at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen, Germany. Frederic Esposito is a research assistant at the European Institute of Geneva. Michel Foucher is Professor of Geography at Lyon University and Managing Director of the Observatoire europeen de Geopolitique. Marc Franco is an official in DG1A at the Commission of the European Union in Brussels. Adrian Hyde-Price is currently Senior Lecturer in the International Politics of East Central Europe at the Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham. Andras Inotai is Director of the Institute for World Economics in Budapest. He is Head of the Strategic Task Force on Integration into the European Union. Alice Landau is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Geneva. Jacques Vonthron is an official of the Commission of the European Union based in Brussels. Richard G. Whitman is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Westminster and Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Studies.