Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Nazım İREM

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:European Union,Globalization,Enlargement,Democratic Deficit,Politics of Acquis Communautaire

Özet: Basic principles of the EU's politics of expansion have begun to be laid down since the mid-1990s following the historical decision to expand the Union towards Eastern Europe. By giving a meta-norm status to the principle of reciprocal intervention, the EU, as described by Robert Cooper, has taken the form of a postmodern state during the long process of integration. Unlike the integration policy, the EU formulates its expansion policy on realistic terms assuming that the candidates, which are not fully incorporated into the postmodern policy realm of the EU, are modern nation states. It is argued that the structural problems such as democratic deficit and/or the erosion of legitimacy inherent to the EU's postmodern integration politics have been exported to the candidate states in the process of the adaptation of the acquis communautaire.

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