1st Edition
The EU and Member State Building European Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans
PART I: Theory of Enlargement and Member State-Building 1. Introduction: The EU and Statebuilding in the Western Balkans, Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan 2. The Limits of Normative Power? EU Member State-Building in the Western Balkans, Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan 3. Building on Experience? EU Enlargement and the Western Balkans, Erhan İçener and David Phinnemore PART II: Case Studies 4. The Normative Power of the EU in Croatia: Mixed Results, Sanja Badanjak 5. The Role of the EU in the statehood and democratization of Montenegro, Jelena Džankić 6. The EU in Macedonia: from inter to intra-ethnic political mediator in an accession deadlock, Simonida Kacarska 7. Signaling right and turning left: The response to EU-conditionality in Serbia, Mladen Mladenov and Bernhard Stahl 8. The EU’s ‘Limited Sovereignty – Strong Control’ Approach in the Process of Member State Building in Kosovo, Gëzim Krasniqi and Mehmet Musaj 9. Not-So-Great Expectations: The EU and the Constitutional Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valery Perry PART III: Comparative Perspectives 10. The European Union and the Western Balkans: Time to Move away from Retributive Justice?, Olivera Simić 11. The Political Economy of Accession: Forming Economically Viable Member States, Will Bartlett PART IV: Conclusion 12. Theory and Practice of EU Member-State Building in the Western Balkans, Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan
Biography
Soeren Keil is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK.
Zeynep Arkan is Lecturer in International Relations at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey.
‘This volume seeks explain why the EU has been able to transform, even strengthen, the states in the Western Balkans. The EU does so through state building, yet it faces local resistance. Contributions by leading experts of the region explain the specifics on the ground and help to explain the difficult path these countries face from the demise of Yugoslavia to possibly joining the European Union. This volume brings to the fore the weakness in the EU external policy approach of reaching out to the political elites in the countries of the Western Balkans without giving a clear signal – a policy that clearly has had at best mixed results in the region. This path-breaking book is a must read for anyone with an interest in the developments in South Eastern Europe.’ – Amy Verdun, University of Victoria, Canada
