East Side Story: How Transnational Coalitions Contested EU Conditionality

Cristina Parau

Europe-Asia Studies, 2010, vol. 62, issue 9, 1527-1554

Abstract: The literature on Europeanisation in relation to Eastern Europe has posited the material incentives of EU membership as the main driver of domestic reforms aimed at adopting EU rules and norms (conditionality). But this fails to explain puzzling instances where no EU rule exists yet domestic change happens under European influence, or where the rule is a condition yet has little impact. As repositories of (dis)information, transnational networks can embolden a candidate country to breach the rules or influence it to comply with the ‘extra-conditionality’ the networks themselves create out of their own agendas.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2010.515797

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