Development by Stealth: The governance of economic integration in European Union’s Eastern peripheries

Bruszt, Laszlo and Langbein, Julia (2015) Development by Stealth: The governance of economic integration in European Union’s Eastern peripheries. [Conference Proceedings] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: Economic integration, the removal of tariff and non-tariff restrictions and the unification of economic regulations and policies between different economies is one of the most contested issues among economists, political economists and students of economic development. It is claimed to produce public goods by some (Baldwin, 2004; Balassa, 1965), increase patterns of economic and social exclusion by others (Bieler 2002, 2006; Bohle 2006, 2009). In these debates a special role is played by students of the governance of economic integration who claim that the level of progress in, and the developmental outcomes of market integration are largely shaped by the way integration is governed (Drezner, 2007; Mattli and Woods, 2014; Offe, 2014; Bruszt and McDermott, 2014)

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