| Abstrakt: |
European integration has profoundly reshaped states in Europe's peripheries. It hasdeprived them of the traditional means of autonomously managing development,imposed institutions defending the integrity of the regional market from domesticactors, and provided them, in exchange, with EU-level development policies.However, whereas in the South the EU has relied primarily on incentives forremaking the economic state, in the East it has engaged in direct institution building.The different EU strategies pushed the evolution of the economic statein the two peripheries in different directions and the two parts of Europe now facedifferent developmental dilemmas. Despite their differences, neither the Easternnor the Southern states have the capacity to get in synch the triple challengeof integration: playing by the uniform regional rules, improving their positionsin the European markets and extending the range of domestic beneficiaries ofintegration. While the ensuing economic and political tensions might endangerregional integration, EU-level capacities for addressing the developmentalproblems of the peripheries are in short supply. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
