POLS 3435 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Identity Politics, Secularism, Execution Unit
25 Sep 2016
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widening is accepting new members into the union. About drawing the boundaries of the community. Such as turkey joining because they mainly do not have a european identity. Not about territorial enlargement, but about widening with regard to citizenship and the rights of non-eu foreigners. Who has a legitimate claim to be accepted into the community as they are driven by economic and more material concerns. Uncontested notions of modern and liberal europe in identity terms. Returning to europe: identity politics and eastern enlargement. Eastern enlargement presented a major challenge for the eu and for rationalist theories of. Why did the eu commit itself early on to a path to membership for central eastern europe. Security arguments are not plausible given that the ceec joined nato. The economic benefits of eastern enlargement for eu member states are distributed very unevenly.
