Theorizing EU enlargement: research focus, hypotheses, and the state of research

Barriers to Socialization: Turkey and Regional International Organizations

“…These net benefits can be based on economics, security, domestic political considerations, or some combination of the three (Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier 2002). The new member, for instance, might generate access to broader markets or reinforce members' security vis-à-vis rivals (Walt 1987).…”

From Policy to Politics? Informal Practices within the Social Protection Committee after the Enlargement

“…Studies argued that this enlargement could potentially make it difficult for actors to operate within the existing institutional frameworks in the same way as they had done before, with a particular reference to relatively ad hoc or non-legislative governance arrangements. Reasons for problems could be manifold, from the increasing number of players and heterogeneity of positions (Scharpf 2002) to the lack of socialization of actors from new member states (Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier 2002). Therefore, it is certainly important to study the impacts of enlargement on particular institutional frameworks.…”

Rational Choice and EU Politics

“…Students of EU enlargement had for some time framed many of their research questions in terms of the rationalist-constructivist debate, including a number of studies that grappled with the EU's decision to enlarge and the substantive terms of enlargement negotiated with the candidate countries (Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier 2002). Toward the end of the 1990s and into the current decade, many of these scholars turned to studying the effects of the EU on candidate and new member countries.…”