- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Boxes
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- List of Contributors
- New to this Edition
- Map
- Guided Tour of the Textbook Features
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Part I Background
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How Did We Get Here?
- Part II Major Actors
- 3. The EU’s Institutions
- 4. Member States
- Part III Policies and Policy-Making
- 5. Key Policies
- 6. How Policies Are Made
- 7. Democracy in the European Union
- Part IV The EU and the Wider World
- 8. EU Expansion and Wider Europe
- 9. The EU as a Security Actor
- 10. The EU as a Global Actor
- 11. Conclusion
- Appendix: Chronology of European Integration*
- Appendix 2 Supplement including coverage of Brexit
- Glossary
- References
- Index
(p. 161) Part IV The EU and the Wider World
- Author(s):
Daniel Kenealy
, John Peterson
, and Richard Corbett
This chapter focuses on the expansion of the European Union and the widening of Europe. Enlargement is often seen as the EU's most successful foreign policy. It has extended prosperity, stability, and good governance to neighbouring countries by means of its membership criteria. However, enlargement is much more than foreign policy: it is the process whereby the external becomes internal. It is about how non-member countries become members, and shape the development of the EU itself. The chapter first compares widening and deepening before discussing enlargement as soft power. It then explains how the EU has expanded and why countries want to join. It also looks at prospective member states: the Balkan countries, Turkey, Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland. Finally, it examines the European Neighbourhood Policy.
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- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Boxes
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- List of Contributors
- New to this Edition
- Map
- Guided Tour of the Textbook Features
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Part I Background
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How Did We Get Here?
- Part II Major Actors
- 3. The EU’s Institutions
- 4. Member States
- Part III Policies and Policy-Making
- 5. Key Policies
- 6. How Policies Are Made
- 7. Democracy in the European Union
- Part IV The EU and the Wider World
- 8. EU Expansion and Wider Europe
- 9. The EU as a Security Actor
- 10. The EU as a Global Actor
- 11. Conclusion
- Appendix: Chronology of European Integration*
- Appendix 2 Supplement including coverage of Brexit
- Glossary
- References
- Index
