European Enlargement across Rounds and Beyond Borders (Routledge Advances in European Politics)

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.