Europeanization
Adopting Western customs
Europeanization is the process of becoming more European in character, institutions, or practices.
The term appears most often in political and academic contexts discussing how countries adopt European Union standards, laws, and norms: Turkey's Europeanization efforts stalled in the 2010s.
It can also describe broader cultural assimilation to European ways: the Europeanization of urban architecture in colonial cities.
Creating consistency across systems
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
- unificationMerging into one entity
- enlargementIncrease in size
- accessionAttainment of high office
Schengen · single market · customs union · supranational · acquis communautaire · subsidiarity · multilateralism · treaties
Adopting Euro-American practices
- modernizationAdoption of current methods
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- acculturationAdopting another group's customs
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
reform · convergence · liberalization · democratization · secularization · standardization · homogenization · cultural shift
harmonization
Creating consistency across systems
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
- unificationMerging into one entity
- enlargementIncrease in size
accession · Schengen · single market · customs union · supranational · acquis communautaire · subsidiarity · multilateralism · treaties · directives
westernization
Adopting Euro-American practices
- modernizationAdoption of current methods
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- acculturationAdopting another group's customs
adaptation · reform · convergence · liberalization · democratization · secularization · standardization · homogenization · cultural shift · identity
- Post-Communismpostcommunism, Soviet collapse, Berlin Wall fall, democratization, market reforms
Europeanizationindigenization
Adapting to native practices
Americanization · nationalization · localization · Russification · Arabization
Europeanizationisolationism
Policy avoiding foreign alliances
Euroscepticism · nationalism · separatism · autarky · nativism
Europe, European, Europeanized, Eurozone, Eurocentric, Eurocentrism