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rekandBarburska2008).Thenewmemberstateshavebecomedirectlyexposedto
theEUinstitutions’actionsandlegalactsandstartedtoshapethepoliticsandpolicies
oftheEUdirectly.Thisfuelledthenextwaveofresearchonpost-enlargementcom-
pliance(Dimitrova2010;EpsteinandSedelmeier2008),theeffectsofenlargement
ontheEUinstitutionsanddemocracy(Zielonka2007;Sjursen2006)andontheCEE
societies(GóraandMach2010).Themain,overarchingquestionforvariousresearch
initiativesishowthecountriesandtheirsocietiesfollowthepathofmodernisation
andEuropeanisationwithoutthepowerfulmechanismofconditionality.Thisisalso
oneofthemainquestionswhichunderscoresthisvolume.Thisbriefoverviewofthe
literatureonEuropeanisationsetsitsgeneraltheoreticalframework.Thisisfurther
complementedbythecommentarieswrittentoeachpartofthebookandillustrated
bythecasestudiesofferedbythearticlescontributingtothevolume.
Presentationofthebook
ThisbookisaddressedtothoseinterestedinCentralandEasternEurope.Ithastwo
mainaims.Ontheonehand,itpresentstherecentalterationsintheregionresulting
fromtheprocessesofEuropeanintegration.Inotherwords,itoffersanaccountofthe
processofEuropeanisationintheregionoccurringaftertheaccessionandgoingbe-
yondconditionalitymechanisms.Ontheotherhand,thecollectionattemptstooffer
reflectionandcontributetothediscussiononhowthechangestakingplaceinCEE
influencetheoretisationonEuropeanisation–aconceptinitiallyconstructedinorder
totacklethechangestakingplaceinresponsetotheprocessesofEuropeanintegra-
tionintheoldmemberstates.
Mostofthetextsincludedinthisvolumewerealreadypublishedinvariousjour-
nalsinrecentyears,afterenlargement,1withtheexceptionoforiginalarticlesby
NicoleGallinaandMartinDangerfield,aswellasthecontributionswrittenbyChris-
topherLord,ZdzisławMach,Hans-JörgTrenzandMagdalenaGóra,servingascom-
mentariestoeachpartofthebook.Attemptingtobringinthevoicesfromthe"core”
andthe"periphery”ofsocialsciences,thereprintedarticleswereselectedfromboth
journalspublishedinCentralandEasternEurope,oftenwithlimitedcirculation,as
wellasthosemorerecognisableintheglobalnetworkofscholarsandresearchers.
ThemajorkeyforselectionwastochoosearticlesthatlookattheCEEregionand
highlightsignificantchanges–notalwaysonlypositive–inducedbytheEuropean
integration.
Thebookisdividedintofourparts,eachconcentratingonanareawherechanges
seemtobemostprofoundandmostinterestingfromthepointofviewoftheorising
ontheimpactofEuropeanintegrationprocesses,i.e.democraticconsolidationinthe
region,collectiveidentityconstruction,functioningofcivilsocietyandstudieson
foreignpolicyandinternationalrelations.
1Fullinformationontheplacethearticleswereinitiallypublishedisincludedinthetexts.