Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement The Myth of Conditionality

EU conditionality for membership is widely understood as having been a driving force for Europeanization, providing incentives and sanctions for compliance or noncompliance 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.

James Hughes is Reader in Comparative and East European Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He taught at the universities of Surrey, Trinity College Dublin, and Keele before joining the Department of Government at LSE in 1994. He was a Nuffield Social Science Fellow (1994-5) and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2001-02).

Gwendolyn Sasse is Lecturer in East European Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She taught at the Central European University before joining the European Institute at LSE in 1999. Since 2002 she is based both in the European Institute and in the Department of Government. Her PhD was awarded the LSE Robert McKenzie Prize.

Claire Gordon is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.