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Regional Governance and East Central Europe: The EU, NATO and the Consolidation of Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2004

SHARON L. WOLCHIK
SHARON L. WOLCHIK
Affiliation:
George Washington University, Washington, USA
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Over a decade has passed since the heady days of 1989 and 1990 when communist governments fell one after the other and almost all political parties taking part in elections shared the same goals: Democracy, the Market, and Back to Europe. In December 2002, the efforts of the new leaders of these countries to ‘return to Europe’ bore fruit in an event that many had in 1989 regarded as too farfetched to imagine, the invitation of most of the countries in the region to join the EU in 2004 or 2007. The culmination of a decade-long process of harmonization and negotiation, this invitation symbolized the success of these countries in instituting political democracies and market economies. But how complete is this process, particularly in the political realm?

Type
Research Article
Information
Japanese Journal of Political Science , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , November 2003 , pp. 273 - 292
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Takashi Inoguchi and other participants at the Conference on Governance held at the University of Tokyo in January 2003 for their useful comments on an earlier version of this work. I would also like to thank my research assistant Adrienn Lanczos for her help with this article.