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12 Eur. Foreign Aff. Rev. 116 (2007)
The European Union at the United Nations: Intersecting Multilateralisms

handle is hein.kluwer/eurofa0012 and id is 118 raw text is: BOOK REVIEWS thus dispelling any notions that Europeanization has resulted in a uniform and complete transformation of the CEECs. With one exception, the chapters in the volume, which address a host of issue areas in which reforms were undertaken, including nondiscrimination and minority protection, social policy, and health care, fit nicely into the framework provided at the outset of the book in Schimmelfenning and Sedelmeier's introduction. Of the chapters in the book, particular standouts include the introduction, which raises some interesting general questions about the scholarship on Europeanization; Grabbe's chapter on the free movement of workers and the rules governing the Schengen area; and Andonova's chapter on the adoption of environmental rules in the Czech Republic and Poland. The coherence of the volume is interrupted only by chapter 10, which offers a discussion that might have more easily been combined with either the introductory remarks or the conclusions. With regard to the approach employed by this volume, it is the case that Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier's conclusions regarding the relative strength of the External Incentives Model do not come as a particular surprise. In many respects, the two alternative (and potentially competing) models are not as persuasive as the first model even from the outset of the book, given both the structure and nature of EU-CEEC negotiations. The fact that the first model also includes both external (EU) and internal (domestic actors) components marks it as far more sophisticated than either of the other two models. It is possible that such as step might too radically alter the fundamental agenda of the volume; nevertheless, it is worth asking whether it might have been worthwhile to divide the first model into two separate models, each with an internal (domestic) and an external (EU) component. If this volume covers a great deal of territory with respect to the issue areas examined by the individual authors, one question that is raised by these case studies is how CEEC governments prioritized the reform process as a whole. It would seem logical that candidate country officials must have considered how, whether, and when to make changes based, in part, on the entire set of changes that they were required to implement in order to address EU demands. CEEC governments would have to weigh the costs and benefits of addressing one policy area before another, or one policy area instead of another, given, among other things, time constraints, budgetary constraints, the EU's priorities, and the strength of different domestic interest groups. In this respect, the volume does suggest interesting topics for further research on the process of Europeanization. Similarly, the book concludes with some thought-provoking questions regarding the future of the CEECs. Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier consider, for example, whether Europeanization will continue in the countries that have most recently joined the EU. Now that they have succeeded in becoming members of the European Union, for example, will CEECs continue to implement reforms? Will the reform process slow substantially, or, if the reform process does continue, what factors will motivate the CEECs to implement further changes? Andrea Gates is a visiting faculty member in the Department of Political Science Stanford University Katie Verlin Laatikainen and Karen E. Smith (eds), The European Union at the United Nations: Intersecting Multilateralisms (Palgrave, Studies in European Union Politics, London, 2006) ISBN-13 978-1-4039-9534-6 (hbk), GBP45.00 (hbk), xiii+232. Interest in the role of Europe as a 'bloc' in the United Nations tends to peak at points of significant expansion or advance in the larger European 'project'. In the mid-1970s, after the original six became nine with the admission of Britain, Ireland and Denmark, the European foreign ministries themselves were unclear as to the implications of the 'new' Europe for Copyright 2007 by Kluwer Law International. All rights reserved No claim asserted to original government works

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