Securing Europe takes a novel approach to Europeanization among EU member states by employing a sociological institutionalist approach. Watanabe argues that Europeanization as a process of change takes place not as a result of rationally calculating states, but as a result of the reworking of perceptual and normative frameworks.

Autorentext

LISA WATANABE is Research Officer for the programme on Geopoliticial Implications of Globalisation and Transnational Security at the Geneva Centre for Secutrity Policy, Switzerland.

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Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction A Sociological Institutionalist Approach to Europeanization The European Security and Defence Policy Justice and Home Affairs post-September 11 The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe Conclusion: Socio-Functional Europeanization Notes