How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged : Negotiating the Accession through Transplantation and Adaptation /: Negotiating the Accession through Transplantation and Adaptation. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tereza Novotná.
• Authors: Novotná, Tereza, 1981-
• Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1 CHAPTER 1: POLITICAL INTEGRATION IN EUROPE AFTER 1989: AN INTRODUCTION; 1.1 MAIN AIMS AND THEMES OF THE BOOK; 1.2 NATURE OF THE RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY OF THE BOOK; 1.3 STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK; 2 CHAPTER 2: TRANSPLANTATION AND ADAPTATION MODELS OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; 2.1 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK I: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO MODELS OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION 11; 2.1.1 Speed and Timing of the Transplantation Model of Political Integration; 2.1.2 Strong Leadership and Procedural Character of the Transplantation Model of Political Integration; 2.1.3 Speed and Conditionality of the Adaptation Model of Political Integration; 2.1.4 Bureaucratic Leadership and Consensual Character of the Adaptation Model of Political Integration; 2.2 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK II: PROCESSES OF TWO MODELS OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION; 2.2.1 Institutional, Economic, and Elite Transfers as the Basis for Implementing the Transplantation Model of Political Integration; 2.2.2 Institutional, Economic, and Elite Building as the Basis for Implementing the Adaptation Model of Political Integration; 2.3 SPEED AND IMPACT OF THE DOMESTIC ACTORS: TWO MAIN DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF THE TWO MODELS OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION; 2.4 CONCLUSION; 3 CHAPTER 3: THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY: A CASE OF THE TRANSPLANTATION MODEL OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION; 3.1 THE TRANSPLANTATION MODEL OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION CLARIFIED: SPEED AND IMPACT OF THE DOMESTIC ACTORS DURING THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY; 3.2 TEARING DOWN THE BERLIN WALL: DEMOCRATIZATION VS. INTEGRATION; 3.2.1 Local Actors I: Masses; 3.2.2 Local Actors II: The Reform Communists; 3.2.3 The Wall and Kohl: the External Actors; 3.2.4 Local Actors III: The Opposition; 3.2.5 'Vor der Einheit kam die Freiheit' (Gauck); 3.3 THE 10 POINT PROGRAM – ENTER KOHL : A STRONG LEADER IN CHARGE; 3.4 THE MARCH 1990 VOLKSKAMMER ELECTIONS: TRANSPLANTING THE PARTY SYSTEM; 3.4.1 The Unification of the CDU and the Allianz für Deutschland; 3.4.2 Campaign; 3.4.3 Results; 3.4.4 Formation of the New East German Government; 3.5 ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION AND THE STATE TREATY – PUTTING THE FOOT ON THE GAS: TRANSPLANTING THE ECONOMICS; 3.5.1 Key drivers of the process; 3.5.2 Key Decisions; 3.5.3 The Consequences of the Economic Transplantation; 3.6 GERMAN UNIFICATION ACT I: CONCLUSION; 4 CHAPTER 4: NEGOTIATING THE EAST GERMAN ACCESSION: ACT II OF GERMAN UNIFICATION; 4.1 ELECTIONS AND UNIFICATION: DISPUTES OVER DATES AND LAWS; 4.2 NEGOTIATIONS; 4.3 MISSED AND TAKEN OPPORTUNITIES: THE IMPACT OF THE EAST ON THE NEGOTIATIONS; 4.4 MORE INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS, EVEN LESS IMPACT; 4.5 GERMAN UNIFICATION ACT II: CONCLUSION; 5 CHAPTER 5: EASTERN ENLARGEMENT OF THE EU: A CASE OF THE ADAPTATION MODEL OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION; 5.1 THE ADAPTATION MODEL OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION CLARIFIED: A SLOWER AND VARIABLE SPEED AND HIGHER IMPACT OF THE DOMESTIC ACTORS DURING THE EASTERN ENLARGEMENT OF THE EU; 5.2 THE WINDS OF CHANGE AND RETURN TO EUROPE: AN OVERTURE TO THE ENLARGEMENT; 5.3 COPENHAGEN CRITERIA: A FOUR-POINT PROGRAM OF POLITICAL CONDITIONALITY; 5.4 FROM COPENHAGEN TO NICE VIA LUXEMBOURG AND HELSINKI: ADAPTING TO THE PROSPECT OF ENLARGEMENT; 5.5 THE COMMISSION AND PRE-ACCESSION PROGRAMS: FINANCING AND ASSESSING THE INSTITUTION BUILDING; 5.6 EU EASTERN ENLARGEMENT ACT I: CONCLUSION; 6 CHAPTER 6: NEGOTIATING THE CZECH ACCESSION TO THE EU: ACT II OF EU EASTERN ENLARGEMENT; 6.1 THE NEGOTIATIONS, THEIR STRUCTURES, AND THE IMPACT OF THE ENTERING COUNTRIES; 6.1.1 Power Asymmetry of the EU Accession Negotiations; 6.1.2 Negotiations at the Accepting EU Side; 6.1.3 Structure of Negotiations; 6.1.4 Role of the Rotating Presidency and the Commission During Negotiations; 6.1.5 The Applicants' Chief Negotiators; 6.1.6 Negotiating Tactics; 6.2 COORDINATING THE CZECH POSITION AT HOME AND ABROAD; 6.2.1 Coordination at Home; 6.2.2 Coordination Abroad; 6.3 POLITICAL VS. TECHNICAL ISSUES; 6.3.1 Negotiating the Technical Issues: Chapters and Transition Periods; 6.3.2 Negotiating the Political Issues: Temelín and Beneš Decrees; 6.4 THE COPENHAGEN SUMMIT AND ITS AFTERMATH; 6.4.1 Negotiating at the Copenhagen Summit; 6.4.2 Negotiating the EU Accession at Home; 6.5 EU EASTERN ENLARGEMENT ACT II: CONCLUSION; 7 CHAPTER 7: EVALUATING THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY AND THE EASTERN ENLARGEMENT OF THE EU; 7.1 WE THE PEOPLE: THE PUBLIC'S EVALUATION OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION; 7.2 THE VIEW FROM THE TOP: THE ELITES' EVALUATION OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION; 7.3 CONCLUSION; 8 CHAPTER 8: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE TRANSPLANTATION AND ADAPTATION MODELS OF POLITICAL INTEGRATION: A CONCLUSION; LIST OF INTERVIEWS; THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY; EASTERN ENLARGEMENT OF THE EU; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 500; Science; Political Process/Leadership; Government/Comparative; Public Policy/Regional Planning; EU & European institutions; Political leaders & leadership; Diplomacy; Science; Beitritt; Europäische Integration; Wiedervereinigung; Europäische Union; Tschechische Republik
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137477620; 1137477628; 9781137477613; 9781349562947; 1349562947
• Related ISBNs: 113747761X
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