This collection of essays reflects on the fifth enlargement of the European Union, projected to take place in 2004. It examines the process of enlargement, its

European Union Enlargement provides a comparative analysis of the post-war European policies of those states that joined the European Union between 1973 and 199

This book sheds light on the contradictions underlying the European Union enlargement process, specifically to the Western Balkans, challenging the common assum

In 2004 the European Union and NATO each added ten new member states, most from the post-communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. In order to prepare

The development of EU enlargement has raised many thorny issues unanticipated by the framers of the EC Treaty. A significant upshot of these issues is that the