Steunenberg, Bernard; Dimitrova, Antoaneta - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 11 (2007) 06
In this article we analyze the effectiveness of EU conditionality. Viewing accession negotiations as a bargaining game, we find incentives to defect exist if the final date of accession is known, but conditions for cooperation prevail if the date is not known. Therefore we find that regardless...