Overview
- Addresses the changing nature of the concept of democratisation
- Underlines the difference in the effects of Europeanisation in the Western Balkans from those in Central and East Europe in the 2004 and 2007 enlargements
- Makes an impact on the policy strategy for the accession processes in the Western Balkans
Part of the book series: New Perspectives on South-East Europe (NPSE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Reviews
“In this groundbreaking and exemplary study, Dzankic, Keil and Kmezic explain how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process. When membership criteria are clear, if the same criteria are applied to all applicants, if they are strictly but fairly monitored, if the findings are transparently communicated, and if there is no doubt that the reward will come once conditions are met - EU conditionality works well. Recent positive developments in Albania and Macedonia give hope that conditionality works in the WB, at last. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, this book offers a comprehensive and comparative study of EU’s enlargement policy in the Western Balkans and helps understand the limits of the EU’s transformative power.” (Pierre Mirel, DG Enlargement and Lecturer at Sciences Politiques Paris, France)
“TheWestern Balkans has posed a challenge to understanding of processes of Europeanisation. The complex range of issues that have shaped the region, not least of all the legacy of the conflicts of the 1990s, has made the process of European integration in the region very different from earlier cases of enlargement. This book explores these new dynamics. By providing a valuable array of thematic case studies that go beyond the traditional country-centred approaches, it will enhance wider scholarly debates on Europeanisation.” (James Ker-Lindsay, Senior Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Soeren Keil is Reader in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent, UK.
Marko Kmezić is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans
Book Subtitle: A Failure of EU Conditionality?
Editors: Jelena Džankić, Soeren Keil, Marko Kmezić
Series Title: New Perspectives on South-East Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91412-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91411-4Published: 15 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08247-5Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91412-1Published: 21 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-5857
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5865
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 251
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Union Politics, Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Political History