The Limits of Europe: Membership Norms and the Contestation of Regional Integration

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• ISBN 10: 0192667645
• ISBN 13: 9780192667649
• Author: Daniel C. Thomas

Where does Europe begin and end? How have the European Union and its precursors decided which countries are eligible to join the community and which are not? Few issues are more hotly debated, more important for the course of European integration, or more consequential for individuals in and around the EU. As this book demonstrates, the limits of Europe are determined by the values shared at particular moments in time by the leaders of the community’s member states, regardless of their particular policy preferences. These membership norms shape the community’s decisions on enlargement by empowering certain political forces and disempowering others. And contrary to conventional wisdom, these norms have changed considerably over time. The Limits of Europe: Membership Norms and the Contestation of Regional Integration uses a novel combination of normative genealogy, statistical analysis and detailed tracing of EU decision-making on Greece, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine to demonstrate that changing membership norms have had a stronger impact on the community’s enlargement since the 1950s than treaty rules, the location of the states seeking membership, or even the commercial or security interests of member states.

Table of contents:

1. Part One Questions And Arguments
2. 1. The Question of Membership
3. 1. The question and its significance
4. 2. Insights and gaps in the scholarly literature
5. 3. Defining membership eligibility
6. 4. The argument and alternative explanations, in brief
7. 5. Empirical design and methods
8. 6. Plan of the book
9. 2. Explaining Membership Eligibility
10. 1. A constructivist theory of regional community
11. 2. Alternative explanations
12. 3. Conclusions
13. Part Two Membership Outcomes
14. 3. The Evolution of EU Membership Norms
15. 1. A community of non-Communist states, 1957–1961
16. 2. A community of parliamentary democracies, 1962–1969
17. 3. A community of liberal democracies, 1970–2005
18. 4. A divided community, 2006–2020
19. 5. Conclusions
20. 4. EU Membership Eligibility in Statistical and Comparative Perspective(with Patrick D. Statsch)
21. 1. Data and methods
22. 2. Explanations and hypotheses
23. 3. Cross-tabulation analysis
24. 4. Discussion of cross-tabulations
25. 5. Logistic regression analysis
26. 6. Qualitative Comparative Analysis
27. 7. Conclusions
28. Part Three Membership Processes
29. 5. Membership Eligibility in a Europe of Non-Communist States, 1957–1961
30. 1. Opening to Greece
31. 2. Opening to Turkey
32. 3. Opening to Spain
33. 4. Conclusions
34. 6. Membership Eligibility in a Europe of Parliamentary Democracies, 1962–1969
35. 1. Rejecting Spain
36. 2. Confirming the opening to Turkey
37. 3. Suspending the opening to Greece
38. 4. Conclusions
39. 7. Membership Eligibility in a Europe of Liberal Democracies, 1970–2005
40. 1. Reopening to Greece
41. 2. Reopening to Spain
42. 3. Reaffirming the opening to Turkey
43. 4. ‘Neither open nor closed’ to Ukraine
44. 5. Conclusions
45. 8. Membership Eligibility in a Divided Europe, 2006—2020
46. 1. Bargaining over the opening to Turkey
47. 2. Bargaining over Ukraine
48. 3. Conclusions
49. Part Four Conclusions And Implications
50. 9. Rethinking Europe, Rethinking Regions
51. 1. The construction of Europe
52. 2. Understanding regions and regional integration
53. 3. The future of Europe

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