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Title Details:
The Europeanization of the Western Balkans
Authors: Tzifakis, Nikolaos
Koppa, Marilena
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > HISTORY OF COUNTRIES > BALKAN COUNTRIES
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > DIPLOMATIC HISTORY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > SYSTEMS OF RULE, STRUCTURES OF DOMINATION > POLITICAL SYSTEM
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > FOREIGN POLICY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > INTERNATIONAL POLITICS > INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM > GEOPOLITICS
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > FOREIGN POLICY > FOREIGN POLICY > EUROPEAN UNION (EU) FOREIGN POLICY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES > INTERNATIONAL POLITICS > INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS
Keywords:
Western Balkans
Europeanization
EU Enlargement
Democratization
Conditionality
Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kosovo
North Macedonia
Montenegro
Serbia
Description:
Abstract:
The book studies the Europeanization of the Western Balkan countries. Unlike technical studies and EU reports, the book is not confined to registering and assessing the current progress in the accession process of the Western Balkan countries. Instead, it aims to familiarize the reader with contemporary history, prevailing social, national, and cultural perceptions, and the main political and economic choices of the countries in the region. In other words, the book attempts to explain the origins and the causes of the long-standing challenges to the Europeanization of the Western Balkans. The book sheds light on the historical process of nation-building in the region and brings to the fore some of the dominant national myths that have been constructed (and re-constructed) over time. This way, it analyses the historical roots of contemporary conflicts in the Western Balkans and explains each side’s perceptions and aspirations. Similarly, it examines the region's troublesome political and economic transition after the end of the Cold War in the adverse environment generated by the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the outbreak of successive armed conflicts. Therefore, it accounts for the delay in consolidating democracy in the Western Balkan countries. At the same time, it examines the engagement in regional affairs of the international community, which has played a decisive role over the last three decades. Overall, the book offers a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of contemporary Western Balkan history, focusing on state-building, conflict resolution, and reform implementation challenges on the path to the region’s full integration into the EU structures.
Linguistic Editors: Chioti, Alexandra
Graphic Editors: Spanos, Michail
Type: Postgraduate textbook
Creation Date: 11-01-2024
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-228-181-9
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-415
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/12118
Bibliographic Reference: Tzifakis, N., & Koppa, M. (2024). The Europeanization of the Western Balkans [Postgraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-415
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. EU as an International Actor in the Western Balkans: an Introduction
2. The EU Enlargement Policy towards the Western Balkans
3. Geopolitical Competition in the Western Balkans
4. Serbia: europeanization at a standstill
5. North Macedonia: EU Accession Perspective under Controversial National Identity
6. Montenegro: A model country in the Western Balkans?
7. Albania: the great difficulties of the “Land of Eagles”
8. Bosnia and Herzegovina: The European perspective of an ethnically divided society
9. Kosovo: EU Accession without recognition? The country with contested statehood
10. Greece and EU Enlargement towards the Western Balkans
Number of pages 368
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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