Challenges of a New Research Agenda

The concept of europeanization may have been, and perhaps still is, essentially contested as to its usefulness for the study of european politics. Yet few will dispute the claim that it has enjoyed increasing popularity in academic circles since the late 1990s. Scholars use the concept to assess the effectiveness of european-level policies at the domestic level, as well as to understand how new european opportunities and constraints affect national politics. This new research agenda thus focuses on changes in national political systems that can be attributed to the development of european regional integration, and brings together scholars from the fields of international relations, eu studies, and comparative politics.keywordseuropean integrationregional integrationeuropeanization researchdomestic levelcounterfactual reasoningthese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.