SCHIMMELFENNIG, Frank <br/><br/>
Liberal community and enlargement :  an event history analysis 

 -  August 2002 
<br/><br/> This article presents the findings of a statistical analysis of the major enlargement events of the European Union, NATO and the Council of Europe the establishment of institutionalized relations between the organization and out-sider stages' application for membership, accession, and exclusion or suspension of membership. It is designed to test the `liberal community hypothesis' about enlargement according to which the likelihood of these enlargement events norms of these three organizations. The main results of the event history anbalysis corroborate the liberal community hypothesis: compliance with democratic standards is the only variable that is robustly significant across different organizations, events, and time periods 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Council of Europe<br/>Enlargement<br/>Event History Analysis<br/>NATO<br/>Regional Integration
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>European Union