ABSTRACT
Academic research on ‘Europeanization’ has become a veritable growth industry over the last decade. The number of works that have addressed this theme in one form or another has soared (see Featherstone 2003; Mair 2004) and the numerous doctoral studies on the subject suggest that this trend will continue for some time to come. And little wonder: on the one hand, over this time period, European integration has grown both in terms of the number of policy areas now affected by the European Union (EU) and in terms of the number of member states which are now part of the Union. On the other hand, the concept of Europeanization is sometimes understood so broadly that this research agenda is incredibly wide, allowing for a whole range of subfields of political science and international relations to be potentially examined through the lens of Europeanization.
