Description:
This volume suggests new, theoretically informed approaches for historians and social scientists to engage with the policy of enlargement - across rounds and in all its diversity. It follows three approaches: first tracing Longue Durée developments; second, investigating enlargement Beyond the Road to Membership; and third, exploring the Entangled Exchanges and synergies between the EC/EU and its outside. It attempts to properly historicise the process of enlargement with contributions from historians, social scientists and a legal scholar exemplifying suggested approaches and theoretical reflections from the various disciplines.
Review Quotes:
"The volume sets itself apart from the previous historiographical literature on EU / EU enlargement..." - Henning Türk, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn. Book Review in: H-Soz-Kult, 11.03.2019.
"Taken together, the 11 chapters of the book demonstrate how going beyond established chronologies and themes can fruitfully enhance our understanding of enlargement and feed into a research agenda for future studies. Arguably, the volume's added value can be seen in building bridges to research (communities) outside the confines of EU history." - Brigitte Leucht, University of Portsmouth, UK, Book Review in European History Quarterly, 49(2), 324-326, 2019.
"Taken together, the 11 chapters of the book demonstrate how going beyond established chronologies and themes can fruitfully enhance our understanding of enlargement and feed into a research agenda for future studies...This is a carefully edited book highlighting links between different chapters.Cohesion is further supported by a first evaluation of the new research agenda in the form of Piers Ludlow's concluding chapter."
Brigitte Leucht, University of Portsmouth, UK