The final stage of the EU-accession game: The Baltic states - the likely victims of their own success?

The paper analizes the accession negoatiations of the EU with the Baltic states, the main actors, motives and patterns that structure the outcome sof accession negotiations. It presents a number of refinements to the theories of international negotiations and EU enlargement and illustrates them by presenting a detailed analysis of accession negotiations with the Baltic states. Finally, it discussed the prospective dynamics after the enlargement