European Union Enlargement and Integration Capacity

Tanja A. Börzel is Professor of Political Science at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Antoaneta Dimitrova is Professor at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University, the Netherlands.Frank Schimmelfennig is Professor of European Politics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

• 1. European Union enlargement and integration capacity: concepts, findings, and policy implications Tanja A. Börzel, Antoaneta Dimitrova and Frank Schimmelfennig 2. The impact of the Eastern enlargement on the decision-making capacity of the European Union Dimiter D. Toshkov 3. Larger and more law abiding? The impact of enlargement on compliance in the European Union Tanja A. Börzel and Ulrich Sedelmeier 4. Notified and substantive compliance with EU law in enlarged Europe: evidence from four policy areas Asya Zhelyazkova, Cansarp Kaya and Reini Schrama 5. Eastern enlargement and differentiated integration: towards normalization Frank Schimmelfennig and Thomas Winzen 6. What do citizens want? And why does it matter? Discourses among citizens as opportunities and constraints for EU enlargement Antoaneta Dimitrova and Elitsa Kortenska 7. Coming together or drifting apart? The EU’s political integration capacity in Eastern Europe Tanja A. Börzel and Frank Schimmelfennig 8. Varieties of dis-embedded liberalism. EU integration strategies in the Eastern peripheries of Europe László Bruszt and Julia Langbein

"The book edited by Tanja Börzel, Antoaneta Dimitrova and Frank Schimmelfennig demonstrates, through a sophisticated theoretical framework, that the enlargement has widely benefited both national institutions in Eastern countries and EU institutions."Recommended by Daniela Irrera, EuropeNow