Description
Book SynopsisThe enlargement of European-based organisations has reached a near terminal point. The Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) currently cover virtually all states of Europe (Belarus still remains excluded from the first of these). The EU and NATO have experienced extensive processes of enlargement and the scope for continuing enlargement is now limited largely to the Balkans and the European neutrals. Given this state of affairs it is now pertinent to think of a Europe characterised not by enlargement but by post-enlargement.
In International Relations (IR) conceptual thinking on Europe (as opposed just to the EU) has been undertaken using a range of scholarly tools. In this volume, attention to Europe proceeds from English School (ES) thinking, and specifically its three-fold distinction between international system, international society and world society. It is the international society element (the development/institutionalisat
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Regional International Society in a Post-Enlargement Europe 2. The Changing Nature of International Institutions in Europe: The Challenge of the European Union 3. NATO: Within and Between European International Society 4. The Council of Europe: The Institutional Limits of Contemporary European International Society? 5. The OSCE: A Pan-European Society in the Making? 6. Russia and Europe: Whose Society? 7. Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine: In or Out of European Regional International Society? 8. Turkey: Identity, Foreign Policy, and Socialization in a Post-Enlargement Europe
