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Contents: Introduction: the state of European integration Part I The European Union as an International Actor: The European Union and the 2nd pillar integration: the common foreign and security policy, Meltem MA ftA ler-BaA The European security and defence policy: capabilities and institutions, GA lnur Aybet The EU as an international actor: 'civilian', 'normative' or 'military' power? Yannis A. Stivachtis Presidency as leadership? Assessing the EU presidency through the 2005 UK EU presidency, Richard G. Whitman and Gareth Thomas European Union international strategy against proliferation threats, Milagros Aulvarez-Verdugo. Part II Enlargement: A union of disenchantment: the new politics of post-enlargement Europe, Christopher J. Bickerton Turkey's accession to the European Union: dilemmas, opportunities and constraints, Joseph S. Joseph Judicialization: the key to European Unification and EU expansion, Charles Anthony Smith. Part III Socialization, Democracy and Legitimacy: Democratizing and socializing candidate states: the case of the EU conditionality, Brandon Kliewer and Yannis A. Stivachtis Political representation in the Central and Eastern European democracies, James E. Lennertz Democratization and the diffusion of human rights norms in Central and Eastern Europe: the case of domestic violence policies, Katalin FA!biA!n Modelling democratic transition Southern and Central Europe: did East Germany experience 'transiciA^3n' or 'ruptura'?, Gareth Dale. Part IV Convergence and Cohesion: Public support for the EU and the regional level effect, Elna Roig Madorran Regional development in the European Union: implications for Austria's viticulture, Nathalie Homlong and Elisabeth Springler Towards a post-Communist welfare state?, Juraj Draxler. Part V Economic and monetary Issues: The future of EMU: towards the disruption of the European integration process? Leila Simona Talani The race to the bottom: tax reform and economic development in the European Union, Akis Kalaitzidis Common misconceptions of Germany and the EMU, Heather Baca-Greif, Poul ThA,is Madsen and Esben Tranholm Nielsen Index.

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