Cristina E. Parau (University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations) has posted Book Review of 'Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe' by Wojciech Sadurski, Oxford University Press 2012 (Forthcoming, West European Politics) on SSRN. here is the abstract:
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It is one of the merits of this book that it focusses on a timely and important theme that has nonetheless been under-researched and under-theorised: the interplay between supranational constitutionalism and Eastern Enlargement. Sadurski’s treatment of the latter’s influence on the former is especially welcome and stands in contrast with most of the Europeanization literature, which analyses mostly “top-down” causality; viz. the influence and impact of the EU on post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE); recognising too little “bottom-up” causality which runs the other way. In the same stroke Sadurski widens the sweep of the investigation beyond the EU to encompass the CoE, a valuable contribution inasmuch as the CoE has been “rarely acknowledged by legal and political scholarship” (p. xxi), even though it has been perhaps the more powerful engine of supranational constitutionalism.
And here is a link to the book: Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe