This article reviews and analyzes recent research on regional integration. The review is
structured along a political economy framework and proceeds in three steps. After analyzing …

Europe Undivided analyzes how an enlarging EU has facilitated a convergence toward
liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe …

Differentiated integration has become a durable feature of the European Union and is a
major alternative for its future development and reform. This book provides a comprehensive …

EU Cohesion policy accounts for a major share of the EU budget and is central to economic
and social development in many European countries. This book provides a comprehensive …

For decades, free trade was advocated as the vehicle for peace, prosperity, and democracy
in an increasingly globalized market. More recently, the proliferation of foreign direct …

Enlargement has always been an essential part of the European integration project.
However, it was the expansion of the European Union (EU) with the ten Central and Eastern …

Conflicts are part of everyday professional life. As long as there is scarcity, there will be
conflicts, whether for financial success, the value in the company, the attention of the …

In this article we analyze the effectiveness of EU conditionality. Viewing accession
negotiations as a bargaining game, we find incentives to defect exist if the final date of …

Much of the literature on international institutions argues that membership regularizes
expectations about members' future behavior. Using the accession of the postcommunist …

The status of the EU as a polity is unclear and ambiguous. There are different interpretations
of what constitutes its core characteristics, as well as of the future direction of integration. To …