Political developments in South Eastern Europe raise serious doubts about the prospects for
the effectiveness of the European Union's external democracy promotion via political …

The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU
enlargement in the Western Balkans. The extension of EU enlargement policy to the region …

This article documents and explains the puzzling lack of backsliding in political reforms
among the new postcommunist EU members, even though these countries are no longer …

Does foreign aid improve human rights and democracy? We help arbitrate the debate over
this question by leveraging a novel source of exogeneity: the rotating presidency of the …

Enlargement has always been an essential part of the European integration project.
However, it was the expansion of the European Union (EU) with the ten Central and Eastern …

In this article, we revisit classic sociological debates regarding the growth effects of Foreign
Direct Investment (FDI). First, we identify a series of theoretical and empirical issues that …

This introductory essay reviews the literature on historical legacies in the post-communist
area and relates it to the study of enlargement and Europeanisation. The authors develop a …

What happens if the electoral choices are deemed ineffective for projecting the popular will?
What is the link between political competition and democracy? What happens if political …

After the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the newly democratized
countries of this region joined two main pan-European political and legal structures: the …

In the 1990s, amid political upheaval and civil war, the Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia dissolved into five successor states. The subsequent independence of …