Despite the growing academic interest in the development policy of the European Union (EU) and the booming literature on Europeanisation, the impact of Europe o

This book examines why postcommunist states continue to comply with international institutions' rules and prescriptions even after those states have won the ult

Political conditionality involves the linking of development aid to certain standards of observance of human rights and (liberal) democracy in recipient countri

Foreign aid has increasingly become subject to political conditionality. In the 1980s some institutions made aid dependent upon the recipient countries' economi