Reflexiones conceptuales en torno al acceso al ámbito euro-atlántico: las implicaciones de la ampliación dinámica para la seguridad

Abstract

The post-Cold War international relations have emphasized an increase in the importance of internationally promoted norms and rules as well as an increased dynamic of their promotion. These processes have gone beyond the traditional understandings of regime theory operationalization and have suggested the revival of the notion of security communities. The argument, then, is that the state-interaction of the former Eastern Bloc countries with Euratlantic organizations (principally the EU and NATO) leads the latter to propagate norms on accepted practices to East European states. These processes of socialization, in turn, can encourage inter-state cooperation by the applicant states and this can encourage the development of a regional security community.