Osvaldo Croci is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Amy Verdun is Professor of Political Sciences and holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada

• Contents:IntroductionPart I: Enlargement in perspective1. The challenges of European Union – where are we today, how did we get there, and what lies ahead? - Amy Verdun2. Can a reformed European Union bear the weight of enlargement? - Helen Wallace3. Network governance within and beyond an enlarged European Union - Beate Kohler-KochPart II: Policies and policy-making4. The Common Agriculture Policy: challenges in the wake of Eastern enlargement - Wyn Grant 5. Breaking with tradition: liberalisation of services trade in Europe - Jette Steen-Knudsen6. The evolution of the Common Foreign and Security Policy: a case of an imperfect ratchet fusion - Elfriede Regelsberger and Wolfgang Wessels7. Governance in an enlarging ‘Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’ - Sandra Lavenex8. Changing the ground rules: reframing immigration asylum and security in the European Union - Elspeth Guild Part III: Institutional change9. The Amsterdam and Nice IGCs: from output failure to institutional choice - Finn Laursen10. Negotiating the Nice Treaty: a joint but failed search for efficiency building - Andreas Maurer11. Towards finality? An assessment of the achievements of the European Convention - Ben Crum

'This is an insightful though sobering study of the decline of Atlanticism, the rise of trilateralism within Europe, and the impact of both those trends on the future of the Atlantic Alliance and ESDP. Anyone who wants to learn more about the domestic debates that raged in North American and European countries over the Kosovo and Iraq wars should read this book.' Karen E. Smith, London School of Economics