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The EU and Member State Building
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ABSTRACT
This book critically examines the process of statebuilding by the EU, focusing on its attempts to build Member States in the Western Balkan region.
This book analyses the European Union's policies towards, and the impact they have, upon the states of the Western Balkans, and assesses how these affect the nature of EU foreign policy. To this end, it focuses on the tools and mechanisms that the EU employs in its enlargement policy and examines the new instruments of direct intervention (in Bosnia and Kosovo), political coercion (in the case of Croatia and Serbia in relation to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), and stricter conditionality in the Western Balkan countries.
The book discusses the key aim of this special form of statebuilding, which is to establish functional liberal-democratic states in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia in order for them to join the EU and to cope with the responsibilities and pressures of membership in the future. However, the authors argue that while the EU sees itself as an international actor that promotes and protects liberal-democratic values, norms and principles, its experiences in the Western Balkans demonstrate how the EU´s actions in the region have undermined the basic principles of democratic decision-making (such as the European support for impositions in Bosnia) and international law (Kosovo), and have consequently contributed to new tensions (see police reform in Bosnia, and the tensions between Kosovo and Serbia) and dependencies.
This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, EU politics, global governance and IR/Security Studies in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|54 pages
Enlargement and Member State building
chapter 1|12 pages
Introduction
chapter 2|17 pages
The limits of normative power?
chapter 3|23 pages
Building on experience?
part II|133 pages
Case studies
chapter 5|19 pages
The role of the EU in the statehood and democratization of Montenegro
chapter 6|20 pages
The EU in Macedonia
chapter 7|18 pages
Signaling right and turning left
chapter 8|23 pages
The EU’s ‘limited sovereignty– strong control’ approach in the process of Member State building in Kosovo
chapter 9|25 pages
Not-so-great expectations
part III|43 pages
Comparative perspectives
chapter 10|18 pages
The European Union and the Western Balkans
chapter 11|23 pages
The political economy of accession
part IV|7 pages
Conclusion