T. Flockhart 
Socializing Democratic Norms 
The Role of International Organizations for the Construction of Europe

This volume offers a timely and important study on how norms are transferred from the international into the domestic domain through processes of socialization. It seeks to understand the process of change in post-Cold War Europe from a divided continent into a community with a common identity, based on shared values and ideas. It also offers an explanation for why the process of change has occurred easily in some countries and with more difficulty or not at all in others.

Table of Content

List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Socialization and Democratization – A Tenuous but Intriguing Link; T.Flockhart PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS The ‘International’ in Democratization: Norms and the Middle Ground; J.Grugel Complex Socialisation and the Transfer of Democratic Norms; T.Flockhart PART II: PROMOTING IDEAS THROUGH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The UN, Democracy and Europe since 1945; S.Morphet NATO and the European System of Liberal-Democratic Security Communities; S.Lucarelli The EU: Promoting Liberal-Democracy through Membership Conditionality; F.Schimmelfennig The OSCE: The Somewhat Different Socializing Agency; M.Merlingen & R.Ostrauskaite PART III: RECEIVING AND INTERNALISING IDEAS IN TRANSFORMING SOCIETIES The Czech Republic: From Socialist Past to Socialized Future; P.Drulák & L. Königová From Isolation to Integration: Internal and External Factors of Democratic Change in Slovakia; M.Rybar The Socialization of Democratic Norms in Russia: Is the Glass Half-empty or Half-full?; M.Skak Belarus: An Authoritarian Exception from the Model of Post-Communist Democratic Transition?; E.Korosteleva & C.Rontoyanni Turkey and the Eternal Question of Being, or Becoming, European; B.Park Bibliography Subject Index Author Index

About the author

PETR DRULÁK Deputy Director, Institute of International Relations, Prague, Czech Republic JEAN GRUGEL Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK LUCIE KÖNIGOVÁ Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, Prague, Czech Republic ELENA A. KOROSTELEVA Lecturer in International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK SONIA LUCARELLI Adjunct Professor of International Relations, University of Bologna, Italy MICHAEL MERLINGEN Assistant Professor, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary SALLY MORPHET Visiting Professor, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK RASA OSTRAUSKAITE EU Council Policy Planning and Early Prevention Unit BILL PARK Senior Lecturer, War Studies Group, Kings College London, UK CLELIA RONTOYANNI Delegation of the European Commission, Moscow, Russia MAREK RYBÁR Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia FRANK SCHIMMELFENNIG Fellow, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Germany METTE SKAK Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark