European Integration and Transformation in the Western Balkans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook European Integration and Transformation in the Western Balkans write by Arolda Elbasani. This book was released on 2013-09-02. European Integration and Transformation in the Western Balkans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. The extension of EU enlargement policy to the region has generated high expectations that enlargement will regulate democratic institution-building and foster reform, much as it did in Central and Eastern Europe. However, there is very little research on whether and how unfavourable domestic conditions might mitigate the transformative power of the EU. This volume investigates the role of domestic factors, identifying ‘stateness’ as the missing link between the assumed transformative power of the EU and the actual capacity to adopt EU rules across the region. Including chapters on Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, leading scholars in the field offer up-to-date comparative analysis of key areas of institutional and policy reform; including state bureaucracy, rule of law, electoral management, environmental governance, cooperation with the International Court of Justice, economic liberalization and foreign policy. Looking to the future and the implications for policy change, European Integration and Transformation in the Western Balkans provides a new theoretical and empirical focus on this little understood area. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of EU politics, comparative democratisation, post-communist transitions and Balkan area studies.
Party Responses to the EU in the Western Balkans
Party Responses to the EU in the Western Balkans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Party Responses to the EU in the Western Balkans write by Marko Stojić. This book was released on 2017-09-04. Party Responses to the EU in the Western Balkans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how European issues have played out in Serbian and Croatian party politics since 2000, in the context of significant challenges brought by European integration of the Western Balkans. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how political parties in these countries have determined and shifted their positions on the EU, by exploring the effect and interaction of party ideology and strategy, position within the party system, relations with the general public and voters as well as transnational party linkages. The author argues that the particular nature of European issues, closely related to crucial identity and statehood dilemmas in these post-conflict societies, largely determined party stances on the EU, feeding significant Eurosceptic sentiments. At the same time, a number of core parties underwent a rapid pro-EU conversion, pragmatically responding to internal and external incentives in the context of dynamic electoral competition and strong EU presence, and aimed at maximising their chances of securing executive office. The book will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in the fields of comparative politics, Western Balkan politics, and EU studies.
Transformation and European Integration
Transformation and European Integration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transformation and European Integration write by B. Dallago. This book was released on 2006-07-13. Transformation and European Integration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Balkan countries have been looking for good examples and ideas to pursue development and internal integration in destabilized and ethnically complex and conflicting areas. This book about transformation in the framework of European outlines the path of the Balkans to European integration.
The European Union’s Approach to Conflict Resolution
The European Union’s Approach to Conflict Resolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The European Union’s Approach to Conflict Resolution write by Laurence Cooley. This book was released on 2018-10-09. The European Union’s Approach to Conflict Resolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates and explains the European Union’s approach to conflict resolution in three countries of the Western Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo. In doing so, it critically interrogates claims that the EU acts as an agent of conflict transformation in its engagement with conflict-affected states. The book argues, contrary to the assumptions of much of the existing literature, that rather than seeking the transformation of conflicts, the EU pursues a more conservative strategy based on the regulation of conflict through the promotion of institutional mechanisms such as consociational power sharing and decentralisation. Drawing on discourse analysis of documents, speeches, and interviews conducted by the author with European Union officials and policy-makers in Brussels and the case-study countries, the book offers a theoretically grounded, methodologically rigorous and empirically detailed analysis of EU policy preferences, of the ideas that underpin them, and of how those preferences are legitimised. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested in ethnic conflict and conflict resolution, the politics of the Balkans, and the external and foreign policies of the EU.
The European Union and the Paradox of Enlargement
The European Union and the Paradox of Enlargement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The European Union and the Paradox of Enlargement write by Tatjana Sekulić. This book was released on 2020-05-26. The European Union and the Paradox of Enlargement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book sheds light on the contradictions underlying the European Union enlargement process, specifically to the Western Balkans, challenging the common assumption that the integration of an extended European space might be possible without mutual transformation of the institutions and agencies involved. Sekulić maps the institutional dimension of the accession process, and analyses how the conditionality principle shapes and constrains the space for negotiation within the EU. Combining ethnographic research with the discourse analysis of the European Commission’s reports and documents from 2008 to 2019 concerning the Western Balkan countries, the book also explores the perceptions and agency of the individuals involved in this process. The European Union and the Paradox of Enlargement will be of interest to students and scholars of European integration, the sociology of Europe and the EU, and Eastern European and Western Balkan studies.
