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The EU and Member State Building

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European foreign policy in the Western Balkans

The EU and Member State Building

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The EU and Member State Building book

European foreign policy in the Western Balkans
Edited BySoeren Keil, Zeynep Arkan
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 10 December 2014
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203721117
Pages 264
eBook ISBN 9780203721117
Subjects Politics & International Relations
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Keil, S., & Arkan, Z. (Eds.). (2014). The EU and Member State Building: European foreign policy in the Western Balkans (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203721117

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

The European Union and Member State building – European Union foreign policy in the Western Balkans
BySoeren Keil, Zeynep Arkan

chapter 2|17 pages

The limits of normative power?

EU Member State building in the Western Balkans
BySoeren Keil, Zeynep Arkan

chapter 3|23 pages

Building on experience?

EU enlargement and the Western Balkans
ByErhan İçener, David Phinnemore

part II|133 pages

Case studies

chapter 4|26 pages

The normative power of the EU in Croatia

Mixed results
BySanja Badanjak

chapter 5|19 pages

The role of the EU in the statehood and democratization of Montenegro

ByJelena Džankić

chapter 6|20 pages

The EU in Macedonia

From inter-ethnic to intra-ethnic political mediator in an accession deadlock
BySimonida Kacarska

chapter 7|18 pages

Signaling right and turning left

The response to EU-conditionality in Serbia
ByMladen Mladenov, Bernhard Stahl

chapter 8|23 pages

The EU’s ‘limited sovereignty– strong control’ approach in the process of Member State building in Kosovo

ByGëzim Krasniqi, Mehmet Musaj

chapter 9|25 pages

Not-so-great expectations

The EU and the constitutional politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
ByValery Perry

part III|43 pages

Comparative perspectives

chapter 10|18 pages

The European Union and the Western Balkans

Time to move away from retributive justice?
ByOlivera Simić

chapter 11|23 pages

The political economy of accession

Forming economically viable Member States
ByWill Bartlett

part IV|7 pages

Conclusion

chapter 12|5 pages

Theory and practice of EU Member State building in the Western Balkans

BySoeren Keil, Zeynep Arkan
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