International Influence Beyond Conditionality: Postcommunist Europe after EU enlargement

This book examines why postcommunist states continue to comply with international institutions' rules and prescriptions even after those states have won the ultimate prize of European Union membership.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy .

1. Beyond conditionality: international institutions in postcommunist Europe after enlargement Rachel A. Epstein and Ulrich Sedelmeier2. After conditionality: post-accession compliance with EU law in East Central Europe Ulrich Sedelmeier3. The remains of conditionality: the faltering enlargement of the Euro zone Juliet Johnson4. The politics of EU conditionality: the norm of minority protection during and beyond EU accession Gwendolyn Sasse5. Tempered by the EU? Political parties and party systems before and after accession Milada A. Vachudova6. The social context in conditionality: internationalizing finance in postcommunist Europe Rachel A. Epstein7. Out-liberalizing the EU: pension privatization in Central and Eastern Europe Mitchell Orenstein8. EU political accession conditionality after enlargement: consistency and effectiveness Frank Schimmelfennig9. A governance perspective on the European neighbourhood policy: integration beyond conditionality? Sandra Lavenex