Developed and significantly expanded from a special issue of the leading Journal of European Public Policy, this new volume draws on the insights from the emerging theoretically informed literature on the EU's eastern enlargement.

List of tables and figuresNote on contributorsPreface and acknowledgementsPart I Introduction1 The politics of EU enlargement: theoretical and comparative perspectivesFrank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich SedelmeierPart II The Politics of Accession in Applicant Countries 2 Scandinavia and Switzerland: small, successful and stubborn towards the EUSieglinde Gstöhl3 The demand-side politics of EU enlargement: democracy and the application for EU membershipWalter Mattli and Thomas Plümper 4 The struggle over EU enlargement: a historical materialist analysis of European integrationAndreas BielerPart III The Macro-Politics of Enlargement5 Constructing institutional interests: EU and NATO enlargementKarin M. Fierke and Antje Wiener6 Eastern enlargement: risk, rationality, and role-complianceUlrich Sedelmeier7 The community trap: liberal norms, rhetorical action and the eastern enlargement of the European UnionFrank Schimmelfennig8 Liberal community and enlargement: an event history analysis Frank Schimmelfennig9 Preferences, power, and equilibrium: the causes and consequences of EU enlargement Andrew Moravcsik and Milada Vachudova 10 Geopolitics and the eastern enlargement of the European Union Lars SkålnesPart IV The Substantive Politics of Enlargement11 Sectoral dynamics of EU enlargement: advocacy, access, and alliances in a composite policy Ulrich Sedelmeier12 Institutions, policy communities, and enlargement: British, Spanish and Central European accession negotiations in the agricultural sector Lorena RuanoPart V Theory, Enlargement and European Integration 13 Deepening and widening integration theory Markus Jachtenfuchs14 Enlarging the European Union: reflections on the challenge of analysis Helen Wallace

Frank Schimmelfennig, Ulrich Sedelmeier