The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans A Failure of EU Conditionality? /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Džankić, Jelena (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Keil, Soeren (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kmezić, Marko (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Perspectives on South-East Europe,
• Subjects: European Union.; Political theory.; Comparative politics.; International relations.; World politics.; European Union Politics.; Political Theory.; Comparative Politics.; Foreign Policy.; Political History.

This volume casts a fresh look on how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process. The contributors argue that EU conditionality in the West...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans
• 2. European Union Conditionality in the Western Balkans: External Incentives and Europeanisation
• 3. Chips off the old block - Europeanisation of the Foreign Policies of Western Balkan states
• 4. EU Enlargement and State Capture in the Western Balkans
• 5. EU Rule of Law Conditionality: Democracy or 'Stabilitocracy' Promotion in the Western Balkans?
• 6. The Europeanisation of Minority Policies in the Western Balkans
• 7. Ethnicisation vs. Europeanisation: Promoting Good Governance in Divided States
• 8. Tolerating Semi-Authoritarianism? Contextualising the EU's Relationship with Serbia and Kosovo
• 9. The Europeanisation of Contested States - Comparing Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro
• 10. Economic integration of the Western Balkans into the European Union: The role of EU policies
• 11. Conclusion: Rethinking Europeanisation.