Erik Oddvar Eriksen is Professor in Political Science and Director of ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.

John Erik Fossum is Professor in Political Science at ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.

1 Introduction - asymmetry and the problem of dominanceErik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum Part One: Forms of association without membership2 The EU's different neighbourhood models Sieglinde Gstöhl 3The Swiss Way - the Nature of Switzerland's Relationship to the EU Sandra Lavenex and René Schwok 4 Switzerland - bilateralism's polarizing consequences in a very particular/ist democracy Joachim Blatter Part Two: Welcomed, inside, but still unwilling - two EEA countries assessed5 Despoiling Norwegian democracy Erik O. Eriksen 6 The EEA and the case-law of the ECJ: Incorporation without participation? Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen 7 Iceland - A reluctant European? Baldur Thórhallsson 8 Norway's Constitutional Acrobatics under the EEA Agreement Eirik Holmøyvik 9 Representation under hegemony? On Norway's relationship to the EU John Erik Fossum 10 National administrative sovereignty - under pressure Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal 11 Reinforcing Executive dominance. Norway and EU's foreign and security policy Helene Sjursen Part Three: Sovereignty Under Hegemony12 The United Kingdom, A Once and Future? Non-Member State Chris Lord 13 Hegemony by association Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum