EU拡大をめぐる合理主義と構成主義の検討 : F.Schimmelfennig等による構成主義分析と合理主義の接点

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This article analyzes the EU's eastward enlargement in the post-Cold War era using the rational actor model (RAM). The RAM is an assumption that the actor makes the decision of his behavior by considering the cost-benefit calculation. Graham Allison asserts "If a nation or its representatives performed a particular action, that action must have been selected as the value-maximizing means to achieve the actor's objectives", while the constructivist, Frank Schimmelfennig insists that in order to explain the EU's case, the international norm and the political value is more useful than the cost-benefit analysis. The object of this article is to demonstrate that the RAM is suitable for understanding the EU's case by adding the political cost-benefit to the rational model. In order to understand the expansion strategy of the EU, analysis from the security side is necessary. Joining the EU, the CEECs not only enter into the single market of the EU, but it will cooperate with the EU in the Common Foreign Security Policy (CFSP). CEECs' cooperation with the EU in CFSP has an important meaning for European security. Furthermore, if the regional conflict breaks out in the politically unstable CEECs, the potential costs such as military intervention, Peace-Keeping Operations, and refugee care will occur. To avoid the huge cost generated by such conflict, the eastward expansion can also be regarded as preventive diplomacy.
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