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Bridging Europe’s Divides through Regional Organizations: The Balkans, Brussels, and Beyond book cover

1st Edition

Bridging Europe’s Divides through Regional Organizations The Balkans, Brussels, and Beyond

By Melanie H. Ram Copyright 2027
236 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Amid a crisis of multilateralism on a continent rocked by war, this timely book shines light on the numerous international organizations (IOs) that have brought together European Union (EU) and non-EU countries since the Cold War ended and the Balkans fragmented. These regional and subregional organizations – which have evolved and multiplied – provide fertile ground for the author’s examination... Read more

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

PART I International Organization Establishment and Design

1 Bringing the Rest of Europe into the Study of Intergovernmental Organizations

2 Euro-Atlantic Integration and the Emergence of Regional Organizations: Two Sides of a Coin

3 A Typology of Europe’s Post-Cold War Regional Organizations

PART II International Organization Persistence and Adaptation

4 Organization Persistence and Member State Interests

5 Financing Europe’s (Sub)regional IOs

6 Adaptation and Agency for Persistence: Theory and Practice of Organizational Change

Part III: Outcomes and Challenges of Organized Cooperation in Southeastern Europe

7 Organization Outcomes, Overlap, and Obstacles 

8 Conclusion: Bridging Europe’s Divides through Regional Organizations 

Appendix I: Europe’s (Sub)regional Intergovernmental Organizations – Southeastern Europe and Beyond

Appendix II: Table of Central/Southeast European Regional Intergovernmental Organizations

Appendix III: Author’s Interviews

Index

Biography

Melanie H. Ram is Professor of Political Science at California State University, Fresno. She studies international organizations, EU enlargement, and Central and Eastern Europe. Her work on IOs and European integration has appeared in Global Governance, Journal of International Organizations Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Comparative European Politics, Ethnopolitics, and Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, among others. These explore IO agenda-setting, IO–IO coordination, EU conditionality, NGO advocacy, and policies on Roma inclusion.

 

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