... is a powerful source of conditionality in relation to future members and a powerful source of legitimacy in relation to current members’ actions. While this has been discussed in the literature, the point here is that recognition in its various forms is an important driving force in these conditionality...

... to disengage from the country. The article argues that part of the problem was that the EU never applied political conditionality to Ukraine as it had with other states. The ‘‘Orange Revolution’’ opens up new possibilities and challenges, and the EU now must come to grips with a more democratically and Western...