Izvorni znanstveni članak
Norms, identity change and EU enlargement: present and future
Theodor Theodoriu
Sažetak
This paper analyses the European Union (EU) - Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) interaction in a perspective regarding identity as a set of constitutive norms, which are in close relation to “simple”, regulative norms. On one hand, after the Cold War the EU found itself in a tortuous identity-transformation process (well illustrated by the present Constitution debate). The 1989 CEE, on the other, started in a power, ideology, and identity vacuum. Still, countries in the former communist camp able to conclude European Agreements escaped Yugoslav and post-Soviet instability. They are now part of EU (and NATO).
Stability seems to be the key. But its explanation is not a simple, political/strategic one. I claim stability was maintained due to a security regime within which Western values and norms were imported and contributed to changing the CEE identities. In other words, EU’s own constitutive norms were transmitted to CEE through the intermediate of regulative norms this regime helped generalize.
The paper also examines the possibility that EU applies the same pattern to other targets: Western Balkans, Commonwealth of Independent States, and Turkey. It is argued that the determinant factor is both EU’s and those countries’ capacity to turn EU regulative norms into constitutive norms; that is, to create EU identities.
Ključne riječi
European Union; EU enlargement; Central Europe; Eastern Europe
Hrčak ID:
6679
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.7.2004.
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