Dimitrova, Dr. A.L. (Antoaneta)
Position:
- Coordinator Research Master, Coordinator Master Public Administration, Senior Lecturer
- EU conditionality, democratization, external governance, civil service reform, transposition of EU directives, EU coordination systems
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 3890 |
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| E-Mail: | dimitrova@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit Campus Den Haag, Instituut Bestuurskunde |
| Office Address: |
Pieter de la Court gebouw Wassenaarseweg 52 2333 AK Leiden Room number 5A06 |
Background
Dr. Antoaneta L. Dimitrova is Associate Professor at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University. The democratic transformations of the post communist states of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been an enduring theme in her work. Her research has especially focused on the role of the European Union in democratization and administrative reform in CEE. The evolution of European Union institutions and the Union’s impact on the member states – Europeanization - is her other main research interest. Her current research on the implementation and institutionalization of EU rules in the new member states brings together these research themes. Her work has appeared in leading European journals such as European Union Politics, West European Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Democratization and others. She has been invited as guest speaker at a number of international events such as the conference on EU conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Ernst and Young better government conference in Warsaw, at the Wider Europe Centre lecture series at Maynooth National University of Ireland and the Estonian School of Diplomacy seminar on EU coordination in Tallinn.
Expertise
Conditionality, democratization, EU enlargement, Central and Eastern Europe, EU policy coordination, transposition, external governance.
Publications
Antoaneta Dimitrova has published articles on EU conditionality, democratization, external governance, civil service reform, transposition of EU directives, EU coordination systems and others in key journals such as Democratization, West European Politics, Journal of European Public Policy and European Integration Online Papers among others.
Research interests
An enduring research theme in Antoaneta Dimitrova’s work is the investigation of the institutional and political aspects of the post communist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. She has researched the impact of administrative aspects such as comparative civil service reform and EU coordination systems but also discourses on democracy. Other important areas of interest are factors influencing the success of Europeanisation in the new member states (compliance with EC law, transposition, policy change) and the projection of European Union governance beyond its borders: ‘external governance’.
Teaching
Teaching and visiting lectures: Antoaneta Dimitrova has taught courses on EU institutions and policy-making, governance in the European Union, democratization and global governance. She has also been a visiting professor at numerous European universities, in summer schools in Marburg and Kristiansand, seminars in Slovakia, Bulgaria and Turkey. From September 2006 till February 2007 Antoaneta was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. Her most recent talk was at the Arena programme of Oslo University.
Projects
Antoaneta Dimitrova has participated in a number of international projects, such as training seminars for Slovak and Bulgarian civil servants, assessing the impact of EU conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, training CEE civil servants and establishing a public administration programme at the European Humanities University in Vilnius.
Blog
Dr. Dimitrova is one of the scholars of Leiden University that share their thoughts on the EU, the Euro, and European integration with a particular focus on the role of the Netherlands at the blog Eurosearch.
Selected publications
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2010)
The new member states of the EU in the aftermath of enlargement: Do new European rules remain empty shells? Journal of European Public Policy, 17 (1), pp. 137-148.
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2011
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2011)
Living in Parallel Universes? The Implementation of EU Rules on Movable Cultural Heritage in Bulgaria. Boston, USA, 12th Biennal Conference of the European Union Studies Association
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2011)
Speeding up or slowing down? Lessons from the last enlargement on the dynamics of enlargement-driven reform. South European Society and Politics, 16 (2), pp. 221-233.
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2010
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2010)
The European Union and the European States. [Bespreking van: Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities]. In: Public Administration Review, 70, pp. 326-327.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2010)
The management of EU accession in the longer term: Administrative adaptation or an opportunity for setting priorities for reform’. In: Sener, H. E. & Esen, E (Eds.), Avrupa Birliği’ne Űyelik Sűrecinin Őrgűtlenmesi, pp. 181-201. Ankara: Pandora.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2010)
The new member states of the EU in the aftermath of enlargement: Do new European rules remain empty shells? Journal of European Public Policy, 17 (1), pp. 137-148.
(Article)
2009
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2009)
Administrative reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Extracting civil services from communist bureaucracies. In: Simons, W.B. (Ed.), Private and civil law in the Russian Federation; Essays in honor of F.J.M. Feldbrugge (Law in Eastern Europe), 60. Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Dragneva, R.O. (2009)
Constraining external governance: interdependence with Russia and the CIS as limits to the EU's rule transfer in the Ukraine. Journal of European Public Policy, 16 (6), pp. 853.
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Barkhuysen, T. & Dimitrova, A.L. & Emmerik, M.L., van & Gerards, J.H. & Griffioen, H.M. & Groothuis, M.M. & Jong, T., de & Loof, J.P. & Napel, H.M.Th.D., ten & Steunenberg, B. & Voermans, W.J.M. (2009)
De Nederlandse Grondwet geëvalueerd; anker- of verdwijnpunt? Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer.
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Steunenberg, B. (2009)
De uitvoering van Europees beleid tussen ‘oude’ en ‘nieuwe’ lidstaten. Openbaar Bestuur, 19 (5), pp. 19-22.
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2009)
Living in parallel universes? The implementation of EU rules on cultural heritage in Bulgaria. Potsdam, Germany, paper presentation at the 2009 General Conference OF ECPR
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2009)
Living in parallel universes? The implementation of EU rules on cultural heritage in Bulgaria. Leiden, NIG Annual Work Conference
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2009)
Losing that pro-European feeling? Central and Eastern European EU members several years after accession. Idee - Tijdschrift van het Wetenschappelijk Bureau van D66, 30 (6), pp. 8-12.
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2009)
Oude en nieuwe lidstaten. Openbaar Bestuur, 19 (5), pp. 17-21.
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Toshkov, D.D. (2009)
Post-Accession Transposition and Implementation between Administrative Coordination and Political Bargaining. European Integration online Papers, 13 (2), pp. 1-18.
(Article)
2007
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2007)
Book review. [Bespreking van: The pressure of Europeanisation: From post communist state administrations to normal players in the EU system]. In: Review of Central and East European Law, 32
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2007)
Bulgarije: Duistere plek op Europese kaart of laatbloeier? Internationale Spectator, 61 (6), pp. 298-300.
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2007)
Compliance in the EU enlargement process: Institutional reform and the limits of conditionality. In: Marciano, A. & Josselin, M. (Eds.), Democracy, freedom and coercion: A law and economics approach, pp. 221-250. Cheltenham Glos: Edward Elgar.
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2007)
Compliance in the EU enlargement process: The limits of conditionality. European Integration online Papers, 11 (5)
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2007)
Constitutional change in the wake of enlargement. In: Hoen, H.W. (Ed.), Enlargement induced change in the EU, pp. 161-179. Leuven: Peeters.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2007)
In reaction to Loukas Tsoukalis'"Long on policies but short on politics, the EU needs a breath of fresh air". Europe's World
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Toshkov, D.D. (2007)
Institution building as continuous bargaining in the post communist setting. Florence: EUI.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2007)
Institutionalisation of imported rules in the European Union's new member states: Bringing politics back into the research agenda. Badia Fiesolana, Florence, Italy: EUI.
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Dragneva, R.O. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2007)
Patterns of integration and regime compatibility: Ukraine between the CIS and the EU. In: Malfliet, K., Verpoest, L., Vinokurov, E. (Eds.), The CIS, the EU and Russia: Challenges of integration, pp. 171-195. Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave/Macmillan.
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Toshkov, D.D. (2007)
The dynamics of domestic coordination of EU policy in the new member states: Impossible to lock in? West European Politics, 30 (5), pp. 961-986.
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2006
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Mastenbroek, E. (2006)
Denmark. In: Steunenberg, B. & Voermans, W. (Eds.), The transposition of EU directives: A comparative study of instruments, techniques and processes in six member states, pp. 71-88. Leiden: Leiden University/WODC.
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Mastenbroek, E. (2006)
Involving parliament in EU affairs: The new member states and the Danish model. In: Rosenbaum, Allan & Nemec, Juraj (Eds.), Democratic governance in the central and eastern European countries: Challenges and responses for the XXI century, pp. 59-75. Bratislava: NISPACEE.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2006)
Not 'new' anymore? The states from CEE as member states: Effects of enlargement governance and the post enlargement research agenda. In: Agh, Attila & Ferenc, Alexandra (Eds.), Deepening and widening in an enlarged Europe: The impact of eastern enlargement, pp. 101-117. Budapest: Research center of the Hungarian academy of sciences.
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2005
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2005)
Compliance in the EU enlargement process: Institutional reform and the limits of conditionality. Rheims
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Mastenbroek, E. (2005)
Involving parliament in EU Affairs. The usefulness of the Danish model for the new member states. Moskou
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Dragneva, R.O. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2005)
Patterns of integratino and regime compatibility: The Ukraine between the CIS and the EU. Berlin
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Rhinard, M.C.T. (2005)
The power of norms in the transposition of EU directives. Granada
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2005)
De mondialisering van bestuur: Twee casus: De uitbreiding van de Europese Unie naar Midden en Oost Europa. In: Neelen, G.H.J.M., Rutgers, M.R., Tuurenhout, M.E. (Eds.), De bestuurlijke kaart van Nederland, pp. 247-254. Bussum: Coutinho.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2005)
Europeanisation and adminitrative reform in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Schimmelfennig, F. & Sedelmeier, U. (Eds.), The Europeanisation of Eastern Europe (Cornell Studies in Political Economy), pp. 71-91. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Rhinard, M.C.T. (2005)
The Power of Norms in the transposition of EU Directives. European Integration online Papers, 9 (16), pp. 1-22.
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2004
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Maniokas, K. (2004)
Linking Co-ordination of European affairs and European policy: New member states in the decision making process of the EU. Vilnius, Lithuania
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Steunenberg, B. (2004)
Conclusions: the 'end of history' of enlargement or the beginning of a new research agenda? In: Dimitrova, A.L. (Ed.), Driven to change: The European Union's enlargement viewed from the East, pp. 179-193. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (Ed.) (2004)
Driven to change: The European Union's Enlargement Viewed from the East. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2004)
Enlargement-driven change and post-communist transformations: a new perspective. In: Dimitrova, A.L. (Ed.), Driven to change: The European Union's enlargement viewed from the east, pp. 1-16. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Pridham, G. (2004)
International actors and democracy promotion in Central and Eastern Europe: The integration model and its limits. Democratization, 11 (5), pp. 91-112.
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2003
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2003)
Administrativa reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Extracting civil services from communist bureaucracies. Leiden
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2003)
Conditionality meets post communism: Europeanisation and administrative reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Florence, Italy: European University Institute.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2003)
Horizontal public administration reform in the process off accession to the European Union. Varna, Bulgarije
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2003)
Social contructivist approaches and the transposition of directives: a transfer of norms? Utrecht
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2003)
The imitation of Public Administration reform will hinder Bulgaria on the road to EU membership. Kapital, pp. 3.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2003)
There are many recipes but no cure: The state of administrative reform in Bulgaria. Kapital, pp. 3.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2003)
De mondialisering van bestuur: twee casus: De uitbreiding van de Europese Unie naar Midden en Oost Europa. In: Neelen, G.H.J.M., Rutgers, M.R., Tuurenhout, M.E. (Eds.), De bestuurlijke kaart van Nederland, pp. 245-254. Bussum: Coutinho.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2003)
The EU and crisis management: Development and prospects. [Bespreking van: The EU and crisis management: Development and prospects]. In: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 11, pp. 87-88.
(Book review)
2002
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2002)
Enlargement Governance and Institution Building in Central and Eastern Europe: The case of the European Union's administrative capacity requirement. Turijn
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Verheijen, T. (2002)
Institution building in the context of EU enlargement. Publichna Administratizia, pp. 15-25.
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Pridham, G. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2002)
International actors and democracy promotion in central and eastern Europe: the integration model and its limits. Heidelberg: Internationales Wissensschaftsforum.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2002)
The Europeanisation of Bulgarian public administration. Sofia
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Dryzek, J.S. & Holmes, L. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2002)
Bulgaria. In: Dryzek, J.S. & Holmes, L. (Eds.), Post communist democratization: Political discourses across thirteen countries (Theories of Institional Design), pp. 206-223. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Dragneva, R.O. (2002)
Bulgaria's road to the European Union: progress, problems and perspectives. In: Ross, C. (Ed.), Perspectives on the enlargement of the European Union, pp. 139-165. Leiden: Brill.
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2002)
Changing Times: the future of enlargement of the European union and the theoretical challenges ahead. In: Steunenberg, B. (Ed.), Widening the European Union: the politics of institutional change and reform, pp. 241-248. Londen and New York: Routledge.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2002)
Enlargement, institutions building and the EU's administrative capacity requirement. West European Politics, 25 (4), pp. 171-191.
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Dryzek, J.S. & Holmes, L. & Dimitrova, A.L. & Auer, S. (2002)
Slovakia. In: Dryzek, J.S. & Holmes, L. (Eds.), Post communist democratization: Political discourses across thirteen countries, pp. 173-190. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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2001
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2001)
Governance by Enlargement? The case of the Administrative capacity Requirement in EU's Eastern Enlargement. Kent, Cantebury
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2001)
The council of Europe and the European Union and their role in Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe: the case of Bulgaria. Kyoto, Japan
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Dragneva, R.O. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2001)
Bulgaria's Road to the European Union: Progress, Problems and Perspectives. Perspectives on European Politics and Society, mei, pp. 79-104.
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Anusciewicz, T. & Verheijen, A.J.G. & Dimitrova, A.L. (2001)
Tackling Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Caiden, G.E., Dwivedi, O.P., Jabbra, J. (Eds.), Where Corruption Lives, pp. 79-90. Bloomfield: Kumarian Press Inc.
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2000
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2000)
Examining co-decision and the European Parliament's increasing significance: What can the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe expect as they join the EU. Integrace, 1 (January), pp. 28-32.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2000)
International Organisations in Europe: From economic reconstruction and security to complex interdependence and integration. In: Tanev, T. & Verheijen, T. (Eds.), Introduction to Public Administration, pp. 485-507. Sofia: Gal-Iko.
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Dimitrova, A.L. (2000)
The European Union's criticism of Austria and the future enlargement of the EU: Do small states gain or lose? Integrace, 2 (March)
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Dimitrova, A.L. & Steunenberg, B. (2000)
The search for convergence of national policies in the European Union: An impossible quest? European Union Politics, 1 (2), pp. 201-226.
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1999
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (1999)
Interests, Legitimacy and Constitutional Choice: The Extension of the Codecision Procedure in Amsterdam. , Workshop 'Enlarging or Deepening: European Integration at the Crossroads', Joint sessions of workshops of the European Consortium for Political Science Research (ECPR)
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Dimitrova, A.L. (1999)
Kosovo's Silver Lining: The CFSP after Kosovo. University of Limerick, Ireland, Colloquium The Common Foreign and Security Policy: Rationale, Rhetoric, Reality. Centre of European Studies
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Dimitrova, A.L. (1999)
Paradoxes, Gaps and Scapegoats: Enlargement as the Ignored Aspect of Constitution Building in the European Union. Leiden University, Research Workshop 'Enlargement and Constitutional Decision making in the European Union'
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (1999)
The Search for Convergence of National Policies in the European Union: An Impossible Quest. Pittsburg, Third ECSA-World Conference
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (1999)
Interests, Legitimacy and Constitutional Choice: The Extension of the Codecision Procedure in Amsterdam (NEMEU Working Paper). Network on Enlargement and new Membership of the European Union (NEMEU), 3
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Steunenberg, B. & Dimitrova, A.L. (1999)
The Search for Convergence of National Policies in the European Union: An Impossible Quest? (Arena Working Paper). Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation-state, 16 (June '99), pp. 1-31.
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1998
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Verheijen, A.J.G. & Dimitrova, A.L. (1998)
Corruption and unethical behaviour of civil servants: Causes and possible solutions. In: Jabes, J. (Ed.), Professionalisation of Public Servants in Central and Eastern Europe, pp. 219-246. Bratislava: NISPAcee.
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