"The European Union will be a much more diversified entity after the forthcoming eastward enlargement. This collection of essays seeks to examine the origin, nature, scale and implications of this divergence. How much divergence is likely to be...
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"The European Union will be a much more diversified entity after the forthcoming eastward enlargement. This collection of essays seeks to examine the origin, nature, scale and implications of this divergence. How much divergence is likely to be imported by the Union and will it hamper the process of European integration? The book looks at differences and similarities in the fields of macro-economics, welfare systems, democracy, institutional infrastructure, civic orientations and popular culture. The book shows that the map of convergence and divergence in the future EU will be very complex and will not correspond exactly with the old East-West divide. The book shows, in particular, that certain types of divergence can be beneficial rather than merely detrimental to the process of European integration."--BOOK JACKET
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
Introduction : diversity and adaptation in the enlarged European Union / Jan Zielonka and Peter MairEastern enlargement of the European Union and the identity of Europe / Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann -- Culture and national identity : 'the East' and European integration / David D. Laitin -- Discomforts of victory : democracy, liberal values, and nationalism in post-communist Europe / Vladimir Tismaneanu -- Making institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, and the impact of Europe / Darina Malova and Tim Haughton -- Making markets and eastern enlargement : diverging convergence? / Laszlo Bruszt -- Health not wealth : enlarging the EMU / Daniel Gros -- The welfare state in transition economies and accession to the EU / Hans-Jürgen Wagener -- Approaching the EU and reaching the US? : rival narratives on transforming welfare regimes in East-Central Europe / János Mátyás Kovács.