International Socialization in Europe - (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics) by F Schimmelfennig & S Engert & H Knobel (Hardcover)

About the Book

In a comparative analysis of nine countries, the book tests theoretical conditions and mechanisms of international norm promotion and shows that successful socialization has been a result of credible EU and NATO membership conditionality as well as moderate political costs of compliance for the target governments.

Book Synopsis

At the end of the Cold War, the Western international community embarked on a large-scale project of promoting democratic change and consolidation in Eastern Europe. This book explains its mixed results. It examines the strategies of European organizations and the conditions of their success and failure.

Review Quotes

'...offer[s] an enriched, valuable contribution to the socialisation/conditionality literature and the book is well worth a read for students and academics alike.' - David J. Galbreath, Europe-Asia Studies

About the Author

FRANK SCHIMMELFENNIG is Professor of European Politics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe (2003), which received the Best Book Award of the European Union Studies Association.

STEFAN ENGERT is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.

HEIKO KNOBEL is a PhD candidate of International Relations at the University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany.