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This book explains how the internal dynamics of transition have influenced the relationship between Russia and the EU.

In order to explore this relationship this book offers in-depth studies of a wide variety of political actors such as governments, parliaments, political parties, courts, ministries and interest groups as well as key policy-issues such as the ratification of EU treaties and migration policy. The authors focus not only on Europeanization, but also analyse whether European integration may gradually undermine the fundamental characteristics of consensus politics in the Low Countries. Drawing on consociationalism and Europeanization research, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of Europeanization in these three EU member states as well as a better understanding of the varieties of consensus politics across and within these countries.

This book demonstrates the range, depth and complexity of Switzerland¿s developing relations with Europe and provides detailed and up-to-date information on Switzerland itself.

This work examines how key actors within French politics and society have related to the challenges and opportunities posed by the European Union, and how these relations have driven or hindered change in France.

Examines the impact of Europeanization on the domestic politics of EU member states, focussing on agricultural policy, cohesion policy and employment policy with a detailed case study on Italy in a comparative perspective.

This unique book looks at the impact of European integration - and, in particular, the institutional challenges it involves - from the perspective of the smaller member states.

Analyses the recent, contemporary and future challenges and possibilities facing Denmark in the European integration process.

This edited volume describes and analyses Greece's role within the EU and its increasingly important influence on core policy areas such as economic and monetary union and the common foreign and security policy.

This authoritative volume assesses how the recently democratised political system in Poland is adapting to the challenges posed by the country's desire to "rejoin Europe".

Examines the relationship between the Czech Republic and the European Union (EU). This title also examines the Czech Republic's road to EU membership in 2004, and assess how EU accession has affected or changed the Czech Republic, including its domestic politics, governing institutions and public policies.

Explores Romania's relationship with the European Union from the collapse of the Ceaucescu regime in 1989, to its accession to the EU in 2007. This book identifies the EU's role in promoting reform, but equally the limits of EU influence. It reveals the obstacles Romania has had to overcome in meeting the pre-requisites of accession to the EU.

Despite twice rejecting membership of the EU, Norway implements much of the EU's single market. This book examines Norway's response to European integration and looks forward to Norway's future options.

This book explores how the Baltic States have adapted to, and been embedded in, a wider European environment and become modern European states; focusing on changes in policies, politics and administrative practices since 1991 in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and on the influence of rules and ideas in the EU.

Using the case study of Iceland to explore the complex attitudes of small states to European integration and provide a fresh theoretical approach for understanding such relationships, this book explains why the Icelandic political elite has been reluctant to participate in European integration.

Examines how the EU promotes democratization and looks at states that resisted EU pressure to reform. Uses case studies to undertstand how the EU overcame, or failed to overcome, barriers blocking democratic progress.

Examining the issue of Turkey's relationship with Europe, this text presents the Turkish view of integration within the broad context of the debates on Europeanization and sovereignty, but with a specific focus on the internal debates and issues in Turkey itself.

Despite its geographical centrality and its considerable economic involvement in Europe, Switzerland remains unusual, neither a member of the European Union or the European Economic Area. This book demonstrates the Switzerland's developing relations with Europe, along with information on Switzerland itself.

This book explores the relationship between small states and Europe using the case study of Iceland, the only Nordic state not to have applied for EU membership. It explains Iceland's reluctance to participate in European integration.

The European nation state is now placed between the interconnected processes of globalization and European integration. This new book examines these evolving relationships, showing how the conventional territorial basis of the state is being reappraised.

This unique book looks at the impact of European integration - and, in particular, the institutional challenges it involves - from the perspective of the smaller member states.