ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book analyses post-enlargement Europe, and attempts to situate consideration of post-enlargement within a quite separate frame of analytical reference derived from English School (ES) scholarship. European regional international society (ERIS) is at its thickest in the European Union (EU)/North Altantic Treaty Organization (NATO) core and extends more thinly beyond. Examining the EU, Thomas Diez, Ian Manners and Richard Whitman develop a very specific argument that the EU represents a distinctive regional international society. They conduct a comparison of the order of the EU as a regional international society with the order of the traditional, global international society as analyzed by the ES, and in particular by Hedley Bull.
