Drawing Closer to Europe New Modes of Governance and Accession
Drawing Closer to Europe New Modes of Governance and Accession
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向欧洲靠拢新的治理和入盟模式
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2011
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Tanja A. Börzel
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作者:
Tanja A. Börzel
Since the end of the Cold War, the EU has sought to stabilize the former Communist countries by encouraging them to transform into fully fledged Western style democracies and consolidated market economies (Vachudova 2005; Grabbe 2006). The prospect of membership provided the EU with a powerful tool to shape the path of their political and economic transition. Yet accession appears to have been both a blessing and a curse for countries aspiring to become members of the EU. On the one hand, the implementation of the acquis supports their transformation from authoritarian regimes with state-controlled economies into liberal democracies with market economies. On the other hand, accession countries face great difficulties in restructuring their economic and political institutions in order to meet the conditions for EU membership. The adoption of, and adaptation to, the acquis ran into serious problems concerning both the effectiveness and the legitimacy of EU policies. Since these countries are ‘weak’ states that often lack the absorption capacity rather than the willingness to effectively implement EU policies, accession problems cannot simply be solved in the ‘shadow of hierarchy’ (command and control).