European Union Enlargement and Democratisation: The Normative Disconnect in Hungary and Czechia

by Michael Toomey

Enlargement is often considered to be the strongest foreign policy tool available to the European Union, and is instrumental in the EU's efforts to spread its liberal democratic norms in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. However, the experience of recent years has painted a more uneven picture. While the EU's norms have proven to be reasonably robust in countries such as Czechia, in others, most notably Hungary, they have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474485588
• ISBN13: 9781474485586
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages