The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO

In2004theEuropeanUnionandNATOeachaddedtennewmemberstates,mostfromthepost-communistcountriesofEasternandCentralEurope.Inordertoprepareformembership,thesecountrieshadtomakemanythousandsofinstitutionalandlegaladjustments.Indeed,theyoftentriedtomodernizeinjustafewyears,implementingpracticesthatevolvedovermanydecadesinWesternEurope.ThisbookemphasizesthewaythatpolicyelitesinCentralandEasternEuropeoften'orderedfromthemenu'ofestablishedWesternpractices.WhendidthisemulationofWesternpracticessucceedandwhendiditresultinafiasco?ProfessorJacobyexaminesempiricalcasesinagriculture,regionalpolicy,consumerprotection,healthcare,civiliancontrolofthemilitary,andmilitaryprofessionalismfromHungary,theCzechRepublic,Poland,Bulgaria,andtheUkraine.Thebookaddressesdebatesininstitutionalisttheory,includingconditionality,Europeanization,andexternalinfluencesondemocraticandmarkettransitions.