Course Objectives

The scope of the eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) creates pressures on most of the EU’s policies, its institutions, its decision-making system, as well as the integration model more generally. An understanding of these aspects of the EU and their historical evolution is therefore crucial in order to understand the challenges that the EU and the applicants have to confront. In this course we will examine in which ways enlargement creates adjustment pressures, the options for adaptations that figure in the debate, and the politics that favour certain options rather than others. Throughout the course we will identify in the various issue areas the factors that facilitate or impede EU enlargement and that bias the distribution of the adjustment burden between the EU incumbents and the applicants.

Since the subject is very topical and keeps evolving, much of the more recent developments of policy and of the debate are not yet published in books or articles. This implies that the preparation of seminar presentations or essays will require a greater extent of research and initiative on your part. In this sense, the course will in many respects resemble a workshop.

Course Requirements

[Nb the requirements might be changed according to the number of participants in the seminar]

1. Seminar participation (12.5%)
In order to take account of the importance attached to active participation in this seminar, participation will be a separate part of your grade, based on your participation week-by-week. I know that some find speaking out in the seminar more difficult than others, but this is a skill that can be learned; and attempts to contribute will be given credit, so you should not have to worry. By contrast, non-attendance, or consistent failure to participate might attract negative grades. In broad terms, participation will be graded as follows: regular attendance (but no participation) will get you a C+; good faith efforts at participation will get you a into the B/B+ range; valuable contributions will get you into the B+/A range. If you miss more than 3 classes, participation will be graded F.

2. Seminar Presentation (12.5%)
You have to give one in-depth presentation of a particular seminar’s topic (please sign up for a subject on the list outside my office). It is important that you have a discussion of the subject with me, since you will usually have to cover more ground than the required reading. Usually this will also involve an overview of the evolving debate and recent developments, which might require you to do some research. For the presentation you should prepare a one-page outline for the seminar participants, which gives an indication of the structure of your presentation, and summarises the most important substantive points.

3. Presentation and Essay (25%)
You will have to give a presentation of the development and outcome of accession negotiations in one particular policy area that was salient in the enlargement debate. In seminars 18 to 22 we will we draw on these presentations to sketch the process of the accession negotiations and its final conclusions. We will allocate these presentations during the seminar. You should research the negotiations in the policy area in question drawing on secondary literature, current affairs material, and primary sources. You should try to give a sense of how the negotiation positions of the most relevant actors (such as particular member states, the European Commission, and particular accession candidates) were formulated, how these might have evolved, and how the final outcome of the negotiations came about. You should write up your presentation as an essay (approx. 2000 words). The deadline for the submission of the essay is the Monday after the presentation.

4. Essay (12.5%)
You will have to write one essay on one of the seminar topics (approx. 1,500 words). The ‘further reading’ is an indication of useful literature. You are very welcome to consult about the subject of your essays. To ensure a spread of the essays across the subjects, please sign up for one subject on the list outside my door. The deadline for the submission of the essay is as follows: for essays that cover the subject of a Tuesday seminar, the deadline is the Monday before; for essays that cover the subject of a Thursday seminar, the deadline is the Wednesday before.

5. Term Paper (37.5%)
You will have to submit a term paper of approximately 4000 words. You can choose a topic which particularly interests you within the framework of the course, but you are strongly advised to consult with me about your choice. The paper may also be an expanded version of the seminar presentation or essay and it may serve as a starting point for the MA dissertation.

Reading Requirements

The week-by-week schedule gives an indication of the required reading for each seminar. In addition, I have indicated ‘Further Reading’ as a guide for those preparing seminar presentations or essays. However, since the subject is very topical, you will be expected throughout to consult current affairs media and primary sources. You should familiarise yourselves with the various publications of EC/EU institutions, taking full advantage of the European Documentation Centre in Budapest, and Europa, the European Union's server.

You should also try to read regularly the coverage of the EU in the press. The Financial Times and the European Voice have good coverage of EU issues. Agence Europe (Bulletin Quotidien Europe), both the daily bulletin and the documents series, has excellent coverage of the day-by-day activities of the EU institutions. Further useful sources include the monthly Bulletin of the EC/EU, the European Foreign Policy Bulletin, and the Europe Information Service, as well as specifically on EU policy towards central and eastern Europe, Together in Europe and EuropeanDialogue. An excellent bibliographical guide is the bi-monthly European Access.

The European Research Papers Archive is a key access point for online series in European integration research; other working paper series that are accessible online include the Enlargement Briefing papers by DG IV (research) of the Secretariat General of the European Parliament; the European Policy Centre's Challenge Europe, or the Chaillot Papers of the WEU Institute for Security Studies. For background; regular updates, and key documents, also consult the website of the Commission's DG for Enlargement, EurActiv.com's Focus Enlargement and EUobserver. For information on research-in-progress on the subject, see the ESRC's 'One Europe Or Several' Programme.

Journals that are generally useful include:
European Integration Online Papers
Journal of Common Market Studies
Journal of European Public Policy
International Affairs
West European Politics
Common Market Law Review
European Union Politics
European Economy
Economic Policy
European Law Review
International Organization

Background Reading

By now there is also fairly long list of book publications on the subject. The list below gives you a fairly comprehensive indication of the literature (that however often outdates quickly):

• Dimitris Papadimitriou (2002): Negotiating the New Europe. The European Union and Eastern Europe (Ashgate).
• Jose I. Torreblanca (2002): The Reuniting of Europe.Promises, Negotiations and Compromise (Ashgate).
• Barbara Lippert; Peter Becker; Heather Grabbe and Kirsty Hughes (2001): Britain, Germany and EU Enlargement (Pinter Publishers).
• Michael Baun (2000) A Wider Europe. The Process and Politics of European Union Enlargement (Rowman & Littlefield).
• Andreas Bieler (2000): Globalisation and Enlargement of the European Union (Routledge).
• Alasdair Young and Helen Wallace (2000): Regulatory Politics in an Enlarging European Union (Manchester University Press).
• Martin Smith and Graham Timmins (2000): Building a Bigger Europe: EU and NATO Enlargement in Comparative Perspective (Ashgate).
• Victoria Curzon-Price; Alice Landau; and Richard Whitman (eds.) (1999): The Enlargement of the European Union (Routledge).
• S. Croft; J. Redmond; W. Rees and M. Webber (1999): The Enlargement of Europe (Manchester UP).
• Mike Mannin (ed.) (1999): Pushing Back the Boundaries: the EU and Central and Eastern Europe (Manchester University Press).
• John Zysman and Andrew Schwartz (1998): Enlarging Europe (University of California Press).
• Alan Mayhew (1998): Recreating Europe. The European Union’s Policy towards Central and Eastern Europe (Cambridge University Press).
• Heather Grabbe and Kirsty Hughes (1998): Enlarging the EU Eastwards (London: Pinter for the Royal Institute of International Affairs).
• Graham Avery and Fraser Cameron (1998): The Enlargement of the European Union (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press).
• Karen E. Smith (1998): The Making of EU Foreign Policy: the Case of Eastern Europe (Macmillan).
• Susan Senior Nello and Karen E. Smith (1998): The European Union and Central and Eastern Europe. The Implications of Enlargement in Stages (Ashgate).
• John Redmond and Glenda Rosenthal (eds.) (1998): The Expanding European Union. Past, Present, Future (Lynne Rienner).
• Karen Henderson (1998): Back to Europe: Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union (UCL Press).
• Christopher Preston (1997): Enlargement and Integration in the European Union (London: Routledge).
• Marc Maresceau (ed.) (1997): Enlarging the European Union: Relations between the EU and Central and Eastern Europe (Longman).
• Richard E. Baldwin (1994): Towards an Integrated Europe (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research).
• Riccardo Faini and Richard Portes (eds.) (1995): European Union Trade with Eastern Europe. Adjustment and Opportunities (London: CEPR).
• Barbara Lippert and Heinrich Schneider (eds.) (1995): Monitoring Association and Beyond. The European Union and the Visegrad States (Bonn: Europa Union Verlag).
• Anna Michalski and Helen Wallace (1992): The European Community: the Challenge of Enlargement (RIIA).
• Wolfgang Reinicke (1992): Building a New Europe. The Challenge of System Transformation and Systemic Reform (Brookings).
• Peter Van Ham (1993): The EC, Eastern Europe and European Unity. Discord, Collaboration and Integration Since 1947 (Pinter).
• John Pinder (1991): The European Community and Eastern Europe (Pinter).

Introduction: EU Enlargement and Policies towards Central Europe

Seminar 1       Previous EU Enlargements                     (7 Jan.)
Seminar 2       EU policy towards the CEECs (-1995)     (9 Jan.)
Seminar 3       EU policy towards the CEECs (1995-)     (14 Jan.)
Seminar 4       Conceptualising EU Enlargement             (16 Jan.)
 

Institutional Reform
Seminar 5        Institutional Representation and Efficiency of Decision-Making (21 Jan.)
Seminar 6        Flexible Integration and the Institutional Model (23 Jan.)

Policy Reform

Seminar 7        The Common Agricultural Policy         (28 Jan.)
Seminar 8        The Structural Funds and Cohesion     (30 Jan.)
Seminar 9        The Budget and Redistribution             (4 Feb.)

The Challenge of Extending Particular Policies
Seminar 10       The Single Market and Regulatory Alignment     (6 Feb.)
Seminar 11       Justice and Home Affairs                                 (11 Feb.)
Seminar 12       Common Foreign and Security Policy                 (13 Feb.)

Redefining Relations with other Candidates and New Neighbours
Seminar 13       Turkey                                                     (18 Feb.)
Seminar 14       The Countries of South Eastern Europe        (20 Feb.)
Seminar 15       Ukraine and Russia                                     (25 Feb.)

Accession Negotiations
Seminar 16        Guest lecture by a practitioner of EU enlargement (tbc) (27 Feb.)
Seminar 17        Role Play: EU Accession Negotiations      (Sat. 1 March (tbc))
                         (instead of seminar on 20 March)
Seminar 18       Accession Negotiations I           (4 March)
Seminar 19       Accession Negotiations II         (6 March)
                             Deadline for Submission of Term Paper Outlines: 10 March
Seminar 20       Accession Negotiations III        (11 March)
Seminar 21       Accession Negotiations IV        (13 March)
Seminar 22       Accession Negotiations V         (18 March)

No seminar on 20 March

Seminar 1            Previous Enlargements

Christopher Preston (1997): Enlargement and Integration in the European Union (London: Routledge), pp. 3-22; 227-235.

Further Reading:

• Christopher Preston (1997): Enlargement and Integration in the European Union (London: Routledge), chapters 2, 3, 4, 5.
• Con O’Neill (edited by D. Hannay) (2000): British Entry into the European Community (Frank Cass).
• B.N. Thomson (1993): Denmark and European Integration 1948-1992 (Odense University Press).
• Loukas Tsoukalis (1981): The European Community and its Mediterranean Enlargement (London: Allen &Unwin).
• Francisc Granell (1995): The European Union's Enlargement Negotiations with Austria, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, Journal of Common Market Studies, 33:1.
• Graham Avery (1995): The Commission’s Perspective on the EFTA Accession Negotiations, Sussex European Institute Working Paper No. 12,.

Sedelmeier, Ulrich and Helen Wallace (1996): Policies towards Central and Eastern Europe, in Wallace and Wallace (eds.) (1996): Policy-Making in the European Union, 3rd edition (Oxford University Press), pp. 353-387.

Further Reading:

• Jose I. Torreblanca (2002): The Reuniting of Europe.Promises, Negotiations and Compromise (Ashgate).
• Michael Baun (2000): A Wider Europe (Rowman & Littlefield), chpts. 2 (‘Opening the Door’), 3 (‘The Pre-Accession Strategy’).
• Alan Mayhew (1998): Recreating Europe (Cambridge University Press), pp. 3-37.

Seminar 3            EU Policy Towards Central and Eastern Europe (1995 -):
                            From Pre-accession to Accession Negotiations

Sedelmeier, Ulrich and Helen Wallace (2000): Eastern Enlargement: Strategy or Second Thoughts?, in Wallace and Wallace (eds.) (2000): Policy-Making in the European Union, 4^th edition (Oxford University Press), pp. 427-460.

Further Reading:

• Michael Baun (2000): A Wider Europe (Rowman & Littlefield), chpts. 3-7, 9.
• Graham Avery and Fraser Cameron (1998): The Enlargement of the European Union (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press for UACES).
• Lykke Friis (1998): The End of the Beginning of Eastern Enlargement - Luxembourg Summit and Agenda-Setting, European Integration Online Papers, 2:7, http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/1998-007a.htm

Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier (2002): Theorising EU Enlargement – Research Focus, Hypotheses, and the State of Research, Journal of European Public Policy, 9(4): 500-528.

Further Reading:

• Michael Baun (2000): A Wider Europe (Rowman & Littlefield), pp. 15-20.
• Frank Schimmelfennig (2001) ‘The Community Trap: Liberal Norms, Rhetorical Action, and the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union’, International Organization 55(1): 47-80.
• Ulrich Sedelmeier (2000): The EU and Eastern Enlargement: Risk, Rationality and Role-Compliance, in Maria Green-Cowles and Michael Smith (eds.): Risks, Reforms, Renewals and Revival: The State of the European Union, Volume 5 (Oxford University Press).
• Kalypso Nicolaidis (1993): East European Trade in the Aftermath of 1989: Did International Instititutions Matter?, in Robert Keohane, Joseph Nye, and Stanley Hoffmann (eds.): After the Cold War: International Institutions and State Strategies in Europe 1989-1991 (Harvard University Press), pp. 196-246.

Seminar 5    Institutional Representation and Efficiency of Decision-Making

Bart Kerremans (1998): The Political and Institutional Consequences of Widening: Capacity and Control in an Enlarged Council, in Pierre-Henri Laurent and Marc Maresceau (eds.): The State of the European Union, Vol. 4: Deepening and Widening (Boulder, Co.: Lynnne Rienner), pp. 87-109.

Further Reading:

• Desmond Dinan (1998): The Commission and Enlargement, in John Redmond and Glenda Rosenthal (eds.): The Expanding European Union. Past, Present, Future (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner), pp. 17-40.
• John Peterson and Erik Jones (1999): Decision making in an enlarging European Union, in James Sperling (ed): Two Tiers or Two Speeds? (Manchester University Press).
• Alberta Sbragia (2002): Institutional Balance and the Future of EU Governance: The Treaty of Nice, Institutional Balance, and Uncertainty, Governance 15(3): 393-411.
• Ulrich Sedelmeier (2000): East of Amsterdam: The Amsterdam Treaty’s Implications for Eastern Enlargement, in Antje Wiener and Karlheinz Neunreither (eds): European Integration After Amsterdam: Institutional Dynamics and Prospects for Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2000): 218-235.
• Geoffrey Edwards (1998): The Council of Ministers and Enlargement: A Search for Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Accountability, in John Redmond and Glenda Rosenthal (eds.): The Expanding European Union. Past, Present, Future (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner), pp. 41-64.

Helen Wallace (2000): Flexibility: A Tool of Integration or a Restraint on Disintegration? in Karlheinz Neunreither and Antje Wiener (eds.): European Integration After Amsterdam (Oxford University Press), 175-191.

Further Reading:

• Alexander Stubb (1997): The 1996 Intergovernmental Conference and the Management of Flexible Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, 4:1, pp. 37-55.
• Alexander Stubb (2000): Negotiating Flexible Integration in the Amsterdam Treaty, in Karlheinz Neunreither and Antje Wiener (eds.): European Integration After Amsterdam (Oxford University Press), 153-174.
• Helen Wallace and William Wallace (1995): Flying Together in a Larger and More Diverse European Union, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, Working Documents W87, 9-74
• Claus Dieter Ehlermann (1997): Differtiation, Flexibility, Closer Cooperation: The New Provisions of the Amsterdam Treaty, Working Paper Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute.

Seminar 7    The Common Agricultural Policy

Alan Mayhew (1998): Recreating Europe (Cambridge University Press), pp. 236-281.

Further Reading:

• Alan Mayhew (2002): The Negotiating Position of the European Union on Agriculture, the Structural Funds and the EU Budget', Sussex European Institute Working Paper No. 52, April 2002.
• Robert Ackrill (2000): CAP Reform 1999: A Crisis in the Making? Journal of Common Market Studies, 38 (2): 343-53.
• Daugberg, C (1999): Reforming the CAP, Journal of Common Market Studies, 37 (3): 407-28.
• Elmar Rieger (2000): The Common Agricultural Policy: Politics Against Markets, in Wallace and Wallace (eds.): Policy Making in the European Union, 4th edition (Oxford University Press).
• Tim Josling (1998): Can the CAP Survive Enlargement to the East?, in John Redmond and Glenda Rosenthal (eds.): The Expanding European Union (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner), pp. 89-106.

Alan Mayhew (1998): Recreating Europe (Cambridge University Press), pp. 282-299.

Further Reading:

• Alan Mayhew (2002): The Negotiating Position of the European Union on Agriculture, the Structural Funds and the EU Budget', Sussex European Institute Working Paper No. 52, April 2002.
• David Allen (2000): Cohesion and the Structural Funds: Transfers and Trade-Offs, in Helen Wallace and William Wallace (eds.) (2000): Policy-Making in the European Union, 4th edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
• Iain Begg (1999): Reshaping the EU Budget: Yet Another Missed Opportunity, ESRC 'One Europe Or Several?' Programme Policy Paper 1/99. <http://www.one-europe.ac.uk>

Alan Mayhew (1998): Recreating Europe (Cambridge University Press), pp. 300-311.

Further Reading:

• Brigid Laffan (2002): Enlargement and the Agenda 2000 Budget Agreement, Challenge Europe On-Line Journal, 8/7/2000.
• Alan Mayhew (2002): The Negotiating Position of the European Union on Agriculture, the Structural Funds and the EU Budget', Sussex European Institute Working Paper No. 52, April 2002.
• Brigid Laffan and Michael Shackleton (2000): The Budget: Who Gets What, When, and How, in Helen Wallace and William Wallace (eds.): Policy Making in the European Union, 4th edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
• Iain Begg (1999): Reshaping the EU Budget: Yet Another Missed Opportunity? ESRC ‘One Europe or Several’ Programme, Policy Paper 1/99.
• Charles Jenkins (1999): Paying for an Enlarged European Union (Kogan Page).
• Iain Begg and Nigel Grimwade (1998): Paying for Europe (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press for UACES).

Seminar 10    The Single Market and Regulatory Alignment

Alasdair R. Young and Helen Wallace (2000): ‘A Larger and More Divers Market’, chapter 5 in Regulatory Politics in the Enlarging European Union (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp. 100-126.

Further Reading:

• Alan Mayhew and Witold Orlowski (2001): The Impact of EU Accession on Enterprise Adaptation and Institutional Development in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Sussex European Institute Working Paper No. 44, May 2001.
• Christopher Preston and Arkadiusz Michonski (1999): Negotiating Regulatory Alignment in Central Europe: The case of the Poland and EU Conformity Assessment Agreement, Sussex European Institute Working Paper No. 31, March 1999.
• Heather Grabbe (2000): A Partnership for Accession? Robert Schuman Center Working Paper, European University Institute, Florence.
• McGowan, Francis and Helen Wallace (1996): Towards a European Regulatory State?, Journal of European Public Policy, 3:4, pp. 560-576.
• Smith, Alasdair; Peter Holmes, Ulrich Sedelmeier, Edward Smith, Helen Wallace and Alasdair Young (1996): The European Union and Central and Eastern Europe: Pre-accession Strategies, SEI Working Paper No.15, March 1996. [esp. pp. 1-6; 10-14; 19-23].

Alan Mayhew (1998): Recreating Europe (Cambridge University Press), pp. 332-343.

Heather Grabbe (2000): The Sharp Edges of Europe: Extending Schengen Eastwards, International Affairs, 76 (3): 519-36.

Further Reading:

• Sandra Lavenex (2001): Migration and the EU’s New Eastern Border: Between Realism and Liberalism, Journal of European Public Policy, 8(1): 24-42.
• Joerg Monar (2000): Justice and Home Affairs in a Wider Europe: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion; ESCR ‘One Europe or Several?’ Working Paper 07/00.
• Monica den Boer (2001): Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…. Who’s the Fairest of Them All? The Double Logic in the Imposition of JHA Instruments of Control on Candidate Countries, Robert Schuman Centre Working Paper 2001/44.
• David Brown (2001): The New Hurdle: The Prospects for Polish and Estonian Accession to 'Pillar III' in the Post-Tampere European Union, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 1(1): 147-164.
• Sandra Lavenex (1998): Safe Third Countries. Extending the EU’s Asylum and Immigration Policy to Countries Central and Eastern Europe (Budapest: CEU Press).

Emil Kirchner (1999): Second Pillar and Eastern Enlargement. The Prospects for a European Security and Defence Identity, in James Sperling (ed): Two Tiers or Two Speeds? (Manchester Univeristy Press) pp.46-62.

Further Reading:

• Richard G. Whitman (1999): The Common Foreign and Security Policy after Enlargement, in Victoria Curzon Price, Alice Landau and Richard Whitman (eds): The Enlargement of the European Union. Issues and Strategies (Routledge).
• David Allen (1998): Wider but Weaker or the More the Merrier? Enlargement and Foreign Policy Cooperation in the EC/EU, in John Redmond and Glenda Rosenthal (eds.): The Expanding European Union. Past, Present, Future (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner), pp. 125-154.
• Roy Ginsberg (1998): The Impact of Enlargement on the Role of the European Union in the World, in John Redmond and Glenda Rosenthal (eds.): The Expanding European Union. Past, Present, Future (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner), pp. 197-215.
• Helene Sjursen (1999): Enlargement and the Common Foreign and Security Policy: Transforming the EU’s External Policy?, in Karen Henderson (ed.): Back to Europe – Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union (UCL Press), pp. 37-53.
• Pál Dunay, Támas Kende and Támas Szücs (1997): The Integration of Central and Eastern Europe into the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, in Maresceau, Marc (ed.) (1997): Enlarging the European Union: Relations between the EU and Central and Eastern Europe (London: Longman), pp. 316-345.

Seminar 13    Turkey

Ziya Onis (2000): Luxembourg, Helsinki and Beyond: Towards an Interpretation of Recent Turkey-EU Relations, Government and Opposition, 35(4): 463-83.

Further Reading:

• Lauren M McLaren (2000): Turkey’s Eventual Membership of the EU: Turkish Elite Perspectives on the Issue, Journal of Common Market Studies, 38 (1): 117-29.
• Pinar Tanlak (2002 Turkey EU Relations In The Post Helsinki Phase And The EU Harmonisation Laws Adopted By The Turkish Grand National Assembly In August 2002, Sussex European Institute Working Paper No. 55, October 2002.
• Meltem Muftuler-Bac (2000) The Impact of the European Union on Turkish Politics, East European Quarterly, 34(2): 159-79.
• Barry Buzan, and Thomas Diez (1999): The European Union and Turkey, Survival 41(1): 41-57.
• Mehmet Müftüler-Bac (1997): Turkey’s Relations with a Changing Europe (Manchester University Press).
• John Redmond (1993): The Next Mediterranean Enlargement of the European Community: Turkey, Cyprus, and Malta? (Dartmouth).

Lykke Friis and Anna Murphy (2000): Negotiating in a Time of Crisis: The EU’s Response to the Military Conflict in Kosovo, Robert Schuman Centre Working Paper No. 2000/20.

Further Reading:

• Dimitris Papdimitriou (2001): The European Union’s Strategy in the Post-Communist Balkans, Journal of South East European and Black Sea Studies 1(3): 69-94..
• Fraser Cameron and Andreas Kintis (2001): Southeastern Europe and the European Union, Journal of South East European and Black Sea Studies 1(2): 94-112.
• Lykke Friis and Anna Murphy (2000): ‘Turbo-charged Negotiations’: the EU and the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, Journal of European Public Policy 7(5): 767-86.
• Ailish M. Johnson (2001): Albania’s relations with the EU: On the Road to Europe?, Journal of South Eastern Europe and the Balkans, 3(2): 171-92.

Stephen White, Ian McAllister and Margot Light (2002): Enlargement and the New Outsiders Journal of Common Market Studies 40(1): 135-53.

Further Reading:

• Jackie Gower (2001): EU-Russian Relations and the Eastern Enlargement: Integration or Isolation? Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 1 (1): 75-93.
• Margot Light; John Löwenhardt and Stephen White (2000): A Wider Europe: A View From Moscow and Kyiv, International Affairs, 76 (1): 77-88.
• Vladimir Baranovsky (2000): Russia: a Part of Europe or Apart from Europe? International Affairs, 76 (3): 443-58
• Antje Herrberg (1998): The European Union and Russia: Towards a New Ostpolitik?, in Carolyn Rhodes (ed.): The European Union in the World Community (Boulder, Co: Lynne Rienner), pp. 83-104.
• David Allen (1997): EPC/CFSP, the Soviet Union, and the Former Soviet Republics: Do the Twelve Have a Coherent Policy?, in Elfriede Regelsberger, Philippe de Schouteete, and Wolfgang Wessels (eds.): Foreign Policy of the European Union. From EPC to CFSP and Beyond (Boulder: Lynne Rienner), pp. 219-235.
• William Wallace (2000): From the Atlantic to the Bug, From the Arctic to the Tigris? The Transformation of the EU and NATO, International Affairs, 76 (3): 475-93.

Seminar 16       Guest lecture by a practitioner of EU enlargement (tbc)
 

Seminar 17  Accession Negotiations Role Play  [Sat. 1 March!! (tbc)] 
In this seminar we will simulate EU accession negotiations through a role play. You will be allocated a specific role (e.g. a member state, the European Commission or an applicant country) and you will receive your briefing in advance. Read these briefings carefully and do not discuss them with the other students before the seminar.

Background reading:
Graham Avery and Fraser Cameron (1998): The Enlargement of the European Union (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press), pp. 23-33.
 

Seminars 18-22

In these five seminars we will sketch the development and outcome of accession negotiations that are scheduled to be concluded by the end of 2002. The presentations will trace the evolution of accession negotiations in one particular policy area that was salient in the enlargement debate. Preparation of these presentations will not only involve reviews of the literature but also search of primary sources, and news media specialised on EU affairs, such Agence Europe (Bulletin Quotidien Europe) (in English). You should identify the negotiation positions of the most relevant actors (such as particular member states, the European Commission, and particular accession candidates), why these positions were taken (including, e.g. the role of interest groups and different political parties), how they might have evolved in the course of the negotiations, and how the final outcome of the negotiations came about. You should also pay attention to how these positions have evolved internally

Seminar 18           Accession Negotiations I:
                          Social Policy, Environmental Policy, Free Movement of Labour

Seminar 19           Accession Negotiations II:
                          Sale of Land, Competition Policy, Transport (Road Haulage)

Seminar 20           Accession Negotiations III:
                          Visa Policy, Nuclear Safety, Consumer Protection

Seminar 22            Accession Negotiations V:
                            Agriculture, Structural Funds, the Budget
 
 

Term paper due 24 March 2001, 9.30 am

Seminar 23 Discussion

Seminar 24 Conclusions