Tanja A. Börzel - From Europeanisation to diffusion.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the extent to which policies and institutions of the European Union (EU) spread across different contexts. Are the EUs attempts to transfer its policies and institutions to accession and neighbourhood countries sustainable and effective? To what degree do other regions of the world emulate the EUs institutional features, what are the mechanisms of and conditions for their diffusion? Chapters deal with Europeanisation in the new EU member states, particularly in Romania and Bulgaria, in current accession candidates, i.e. the Western Balkans and Turkey, as well the Eastern (Southern Caucasus) and Southern neighbour-hood (Israel and the Maghreb). In addition, authors investigate the diffusion of EU policies and institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The authors place Europeanisation studies in the wider context of research on transnational diffusion, and examine the relevant mechanisms and processes, including incentives and capacity-building, socialisation and learning as well as functional and normative emulation. Finally, the book discusses what conditions lead to the successful diffusion of European institutions and policies, such as domestic incentives, degrees of (limited) state-hood, regime type, and power (a)symmetries.

This book was originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

Tanja A. Brzel is Professor of Political Science and holds the Chair of European Integration at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science, Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany. With Thomas Risse, she heads the Research College The Transformative Power of Europe funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Thomas Risse is Professor of International Politics at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science, Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany. With Tanja A. Brzel, he heads the Research College The Transformative Power of Europe funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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Anand Menon, Kings College London, UK

Wolfgang C. Mller, University of Vienna, Austria

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From Europeanisation to Diffusion

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The chapters in this book were originally published in West European Politics, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

From Europeanisation to Diffusion: Introduction

Tanja A. Brzel and Thomas Risse

West European Politics, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2012)

pp. 119

Is Europeanisation through Conditionality Sustainable? Lock-in of Institutional Change after EU Accession

Ulrich Sedelmeier

West European Politics, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2012)

pp. 2038

Catching Up? Consolidating Liberal Democracy in Bulgaria and Romania after EU Accession

Aneta B. Spendzharova and Milada Anna Vachudova

West European Politics, volume 35, issue 1 (January 2012)

pp. 3958