Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I Security, power or welfare? Eastern enlargement in a rationalist perspective
- PART II Expanding the Western community of liberal values and norms: Eastern enlargement in a sociological perspective
- PART III Association instead of membership: preferences and bargaining power in Eastern enlargement
- PART IV From association to membership: rhetorical action in Eastern enlargement
- Strategic action in international community: concluding remarks
- Appendix (Interviews)
- List of references
- Index
PART I - Security, power or welfare? Eastern enlargement in a rationalist perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I Security, power or welfare? Eastern enlargement in a rationalist perspective
- PART II Expanding the Western community of liberal values and norms: Eastern enlargement in a sociological perspective
- PART III Association instead of membership: preferences and bargaining power in Eastern enlargement
- PART IV From association to membership: rhetorical action in Eastern enlargement
- Strategic action in international community: concluding remarks
- Appendix (Interviews)
- List of references
- Index
Summary
Rationalist theories of international institutions dominated the theoretical debate in International Relations throughout the 1980s. Moreover, club theory, the general rationalist theory of the size of organizations, is the best developed and most pertinent approach to explaining enlargement. For these reasons, I begin my analysis of Eastern enlargement with rationalist institutionalism. In the theoretical chapter (chapter 1), I describe the basic assumptions of rationalist institutionalism, present club theory, distinguish a security, power, and welfare approach to enlargement, and specify the conditions of enlargement for each approach. In the empirical chapters, I check to what degree these conditions were fulfilled in the Eastern enlargement of NATO (chapter 3) and the European Union (chapter 2). However, I will conclude that, whereas rationalist institutionalism accounts for the Central and Eastern European interest in joining the Western organizations, it does not convincingly explain why the EU and NATO member states agreed to expand their organizations.
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- The EU, NATO and the Integration of EuropeRules and Rhetoric, pp. 17Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003