Failing forward in Eastern Enlargement: problem solving through problem making

Anghel, Veronica; Jones, Erik

doi:10.1080/13501763.2021.1927155

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“…The examples provided by Rhodes, Howarth and Quaglia, and Donnelly are good illustrations --even if Rhodes would probably object to the characterization of progress made during the pandemic as any kind of a "failure". Enlargement is a good illustration as well (Anghel and Jones 2021).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Frank Schimmelfennig (2003) made this point in the context of NATO as well as the European Union. What Anghel and Jones (2021) reveal is how powerfully such commitments influenced the process of EU enlargement.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This "forward" momentum towards deeper integration could coexist with the decentralization of enforcement responsibilities, as has been the case in competition policy (Dierx and Ilzkovitz, this issue). But forward could mean widening as well as deepening, as in the case of European enlargement (see Anghel and Jones 2021). Or it could mean deepening in lieu of widening, as in the elaboration of the European neighborhood policy (Rabinovych, this issue).…”

Section: Clarifying the Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Failing forward? Crises and patterns of European integration

Jones¹,

Kelemen

Meunier

2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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A succession of major crises that have tested the resilience of the European Union (EU), has led many observers to predict its imminent demise. The Eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis, Brexit, and rule-of-law backsliding have presented distinct threats to European integration. Yet, while these crises have battered the Union, they have also prompted reforms that have strengthened its authority in significant respects. The coronavirus pandemic is only the latest in a series of such challenges. Time and again during the pandemic, the European Union appeared to fumble, only to pull itself together to forge a common response; time and again, that European response has turned out to be more effective than critics might have imagined and yet less than proponents might have wished. Beneath the tempestuous surface, however, the EU's authority continues to strengthen (Jones 2020).Scholarly reflection on the impact of this long decade of crises has led to a wave of important new works on integration theory. A number of scholars have revisited grand theories of integration --neofunctionalism, intergovernmentalism, and postfunctionalism -to shed light on the impact of crises on the European project (e.g.

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Kelemen

Meunier

2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…The European Union did succeed in demonstrating its transformative power. But it also showed significant flexibility in terms of the pace and timing of the accession process and of the application of its criteria for membership (Anghel & Jones, 2022). What started as a slow process with a limited number of candidate countries that were constrained to move together at the same pace suddenly shifted at the end of 1999 to a much quicker process with a wider number of countries that could compete with one another to see who could complete accession negotiations the fastest.…”

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Three Lessons From the 2004 “Big Bang” Enlargement

Anghel,

Jones

2024

PaG

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The 2004 “Big Bang” enlargement was a powerful reminder that European integration is an instrument for peace and not just prosperity. The pace of that enlargement depended more on the requirements for stability than on the transformation of the candidate countries. It was also a reminder of the importance of forward-looking analysis. Candidates might meet the criteria for membership at the time of accession, but that is no guarantee that they will develop in ways that continue to reflect those criteria once they have gained entry. Finally, it was a reminder that enlargement changes the experience of membership for all member states and not just for those countries that gain entry. A larger Union requires greater self-discipline to hold down congestion in decision-making and greater multilateral surveillance to prevent the actions of one member state from undermining the benefits of membership for the rest. These reminders are important lessons in planning the European Union’s next historic enlargement. The next enlargement will follow a pace set by security considerations more than the transformative power of the accession process. It will depend on a robust analysis of convergence together with contingency planning for any staged accession. And it will require commitment from existing member states as well as candidate countries to what will become a very different European Union. This next enlargement will be challenging for all parts of Europe. Nevertheless, it is better than the alternative of no enlargement or an accession process with no credible endgame.

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“…Soon thereafter -much sooner than anyone might have expected -the EU expanded to include countries ranging from the Baltics to Malta and Cyprus. 6 The Western Balkans and Turkey remained outside, albeit with the promise of eventual membership, while Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine became part of this new Europe's neighbourhood.…”

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Sleepwalking to Solidarity? Russia, Ukraine and the European Dream

Allin

Jones

2022

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Some dreams are so vivid that it is hard to tell you are sleeping. When you concentrate, though, you can see things happening that do not make sense.That is when you realise that the world you are in is different from the world you were expecting. The Belarusian government's hijacking of Ryanair Flight 4978 on 23 May 2021 was one of those discordant moments. It happened against the backdrop of mass protests against the bogus re-election of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko the previous August. Suppressing opposition wherever it could be found, Lukashenko ordered his specialoperations forces to divert the plane once it entered Belarusian airspace. They fabricated a bomb threat and forced the plane to land in Minsk. Once the plane was on the tarmac, authorities arrested two of the passengers, the Belarusian journalist and activist Roman Protasevich, who was on his way from Athens to Vilnius, and his Russian girlfriend. The European Union reacted strongly, imposing a flight ban on Belarusian airspace and other economic sanctions. In retaliation, the Belarusian government outrageously deposited refugees flown from Iraqi Kurdistan on Belarus's borders with Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. It was an ingenious application of pressure on a point of EU moral and political neuralgia. Air piracy and the weaponisation of migration signified what seemed like a step change in the re-emerging confrontation between East

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Failing forward in Eastern Enlargement: problem solving through problem making

Cited by 15 publications

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Failing forward? Crises and patterns of European integration

Failing forward? Crises and patterns of European integration

Three Lessons From the 2004 “Big Bang” Enlargement

Sleepwalking to Solidarity? Russia, Ukraine and the European Dream

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