Enlargement in Perspective: The EU's Quest for Identity

Enlargement in Perspective: The EU's Quest for Identity
ARENA Working Paper Series
05/2008 / Helene Sjursen (ed.)
Centre for European Studies
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway

Preface
On 7-8 May 2004, the CIDEL consortium organised a workshop in Ávila, Spain, on ‘Justifying Enlargement – Past and Present Experiences’. CIDEL - Citizenship and Democratic Legitimacy in the EU – is a 3-years (2003-2005) joint research project with ten partners in six European countries.

The project is coordinated by ARENA, University of Oslo, and is supported by the European Commission’s Fifth Framework Programme for Research, Key Action ‘Improving the Socio-Economic Knowledge Base’.

The workshop in Ávila, which is under Workpackage 4, is deliverable no. 12 from the project. The present report is based on the workshop.
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Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Scientific Responsible
CIDEL project
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Table of contents

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Introduction – Enlargement in perspective
Helene Sjursen.…………………………………………….. 1
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Chapter 1

Arguing about Enlargement
José Ignacio Torreblanca …………………………………….. 13
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Chapter 2
Germany and EU Enlargement: From Rapprochement to ‘Reaproachment’?
Marcin Zaborowski………….………………………………. 41
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Chapter 3
‘Ifs and Buts’ of Spain’s Eastern Enlargement Policy
Sonia Piedrafita………………………………………………69
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Chapter 4
Between Security and Human Rights – Denmark and the Enlargement of the EU
Marianne Riddervold and Helene Sjursen…………………….. 97
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Chapter 5
Turkey’s EU Politics: What Justifies Reform?
Gamze Avci......................................................................... 129
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Chapter 6
Prioritisations in the Enlargement Process: Are some Candidates more ‘European’ than Others?
Åsa Lundgren....................................................................... 151
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Chapter 7
The Application and Acceptance of Democratic Norms in the Eastward Enlargement
Paul Kubicek........................................................................ 175
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Chapter 8
Probably a Regime, Perhaps a Union: European Integration in the Czech and Slovak Political Discourse
Petr Drulák.......................................................................... 209
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Chapter 9
The Role of Argumentative Coherence in the EU’s Justification of Minority Protection as a Condition for Membership
Guido Schwellnus................................................................. 247
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Chapter 10
Summary of Papers
Børge Romsloe...................................................................... 275


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