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Postnational Rulemaking, Compliance, and Justification: The New Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2008

Beate Sissenich
Beate Sissenich
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Indiana University
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Complying with Europe: EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States. Gerda Falkner, Oliver Treib, Miriam Hartlapp, and Simone Leiber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 418p. $85.00 cloth, $37.99 paper.

NATO in the “New Europe”: The Politics of International Socialization After the Cold War. Alexandra I. Gheciu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. 368p. $60.00.

Europeanization and Regionalization in the EU's Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: The Myth of Conditionality. James Hughes, Gwendolyn Sasse, and Claire Gordon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 248p. $79.95.

The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration. Glyn Morgan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 204p. $45.00.

Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration after Communism. Milada Anna Vachudova. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 352p. $99.00 cloth, $37.95 paper.

Law and Governance in Postnational Europe: Compliance beyond the Nation-State. Edited by Michael Zürn and Christian Joerges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 312p. $75.00.Beate Sissenich is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. She wishes to thank Jeffrey Isaac for insightful comments and suggestions on previous versions of this essay.

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 143 - 157
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© 2008 American Political Science Association

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