International Institutions and Socialization in Europe

Jeffrey T. Checkel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. His research and teaching interests are international relations theory, European integration, politics in the former USSR and West Europe, and human rights. He is the author of Ideas and International Political Change: Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the Cold War, and has published widely in leading European and American scholarly journals.

• Part I. International Institutions as Community Builders: 1. International institutions and socialization in Europe: introduction and framework Jeffrey T. Checkel; Part II. The Socializing Power of European Institutions?: 2. Strategic calculation and international socialization: membership incentives, party constellations and sustained compliance in central and eastern Europe Frank Schimmelfennig; 3. Several roads lead to international norms, but few via international socialization: a case study of the European Commission Liesbet Hooghe; 4. Multiple embeddedness and socialization in Europe: the case of council officials Jan Beyers; 5. The Janus face of Brussels: socialization and everyday decision making in the European Union Jeffrey Lewis; 6. Security institutions as agents of socialization? NATO and the 'New Europe' Alexandra Gheciu; Part III. Critique, Conclusions and Extensions: 7. Conclusions and extensions: toward mid-range theorizing and beyond Europe Alastair Iain Johnston; 8. Getting socialized to build bridges: constructivism and rationalism, Europe and the nation-state Michael Zürn and Jeffrey T. Checkel.

'… an intellectual challenge and stimulating reading for both rationalist and constructivist-oriented scholars of European integration and international relations …' Political Studies Review