Books in the The New International Relations of Europe series

Why isn't the Baltic region like the Balkans? Why have the Baltic republic not experienced ethnic cleansing, border wars, authoritarian rule and social chaos? In this text Walter Clemens uses complexity theory to explain the "Baltic miracle".

This is a study of the European Union's involvement in international politics seen from the perspective of non-EU players, particularly after the war in Kosovo, the enactment of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Cologne Summit.

Drawing on detailed case studies of Latvia, Ukraine and Belarus, Andrei Tsygankov explores how culture shapes foreign economic policy in post-Soviet states, bringing a national identity perspective to bear on international political economy theory.

A book of significant breadth and substantial utility, one invaluable to readers trying to understand the region and NATO's role in its security.

Surveys the security policies of the states in North and Central Europe, in the context of the declining North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the emerging European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). This book analyzes US policy toward the region, and also examines the viability of alignments inherited from the Cold War era.

Business, Government, and EU Accession is a detailed study of how EU accession impacts the relationship between business and government in the acceding country. Iankova identifies three major mechanisms by which the EU has affected business-government interactions: first, the legal conditionalities and harmonization efforts for EU entry; second, the pre-accession and anticipated postaccession financial assistance with its specific priorities and requirements; and third, the capacity building and learning that arises from efforts to adapt to the EU conditionalities of membership. Through addressing the question of EU influence on in-country institutional relationships, Iankova is able to highlight patterns of Europeanization that develop in those relationships a result of the adaptational pressures of EU accession, and to trace the effectiveness of these adaptive relationship in facilitating the preparedness of an EU-acceding country for EU entry Using Bulgaria as a case study, she examines the mechanisms of these interactions and interrogates the effectiveness of existing models in facilitating national goals of EU accession, revealing difficulties with and resistances to applying an EU-designed model of institutional change in postcommunist regions.