Conclusion

Abstract

The beginning of the book highlighted how rationalist and constructivist mechanisms and downloading, uploading and cross-loading processes are effecting change in Member States, candidate states and even third countries. It also indicated how their territorial dimensions such as their size and geographical location and temporal dimensions such as their time of accession and their historical trajectory of development, that is, whether a communist, authoritarian or colonial past has mediated change in these countries. In examining the case of Cyprus, it became evident that these mechanisms, processes and dimensions were critical in shaping the response of the country towards the Europeanization process.