Phase Division of EU's Eastward Enlargement and Its Impact on the International Politics

EU's eastward enlargement has made EU the largest regional economies and the largest free trade zone in the world, and it has also brought an extremely important impact on political and economic patterns of today's world. This thesis divides the EU's eastward expansion process into two stages at first, then separately discusses each phase of the process, and in-depth analysizes the impact of EU's eastward enlargement on the international politics.