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ISBN: 9602323027 Year: 1995 Publisher: Athens : Ant. N. Sakkoulas,
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ISBN: 9781138236608 Year: 2016 Publisher: Abingdon, UK : Routledge,
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This book critically examines the process of state building by the European Union, focusing on its attempts to build Member States in the Western Balkan region. The book analyses the EU'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, Herzegovina 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 state building, 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 Herzegovina) and international law (Kosovo), and have consequently contributed to new tensions (the police reform in Bosnia, and the tensions between Kosovo and Serbia) and dependencies.
EU--ENLARGEMENT --- EU--BALKAN PENINSULA --- EU--NATION-BUILDING
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ISBN: 9781138487192 0367733552 9780367733551 9781351043465 1351043463 9781351043472 1351043471 9781351043458 1351043455 9781351043489 135104348X 1138487198 Year: 2020 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge
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This book investigates and explains the European Union’s approach to conflict resolution in three countries of the Western Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo. In doing so, it critically interrogates claims that the EU acts as an agent of conflict transformation in its engagement with conflict-affected states. The book argues, contrary to the assumptions of much of the existing literature, that rather than seeking the transformation of conflicts, the EU pursues a more conservative strategy based on the regulation of conflict through the promotion of institutional mechanisms such as consociational power sharing and decentralisation.Drawing on discourse analysis of documents, speeches, and interviews conducted by the author with European Union officials and policy-makers in Brussels and the case-study countries, the book offers a theoretically grounded, methodologically rigorous and empirically detailed analysis of EU policy preferences, of the ideas that underpin them, and of how those preferences are legitimised.This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested in ethnic conflict and conflict resolution, the politics of the Balkans, and the external and foreign policies of the EU. (Provided by publisher)
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT--EU --- EU--BALKAN PENINSULA --- Conflict management --- #SBIB:327.7H233 --- #SBIB:328H27 --- #SBIB:327.5H20 --- Conflict control --- Conflict resolution --- Dispute settlement --- Management of conflict --- Managing conflict --- Management --- Negotiation --- Problem solving --- Social conflict --- Crisis management --- Europese Unie: externe relaties, buitenlands- en defensiebeleid (ook WEU) --- Instellingen en beleid: Midden- en Centraal Europa: algemeen --- Vredesonderzoek: algemeen --- European Union --- E.U. --- Influence. --- European Union countries --- Balkan Peninsula --- Balkan States --- Balkans --- Europe, Southeastern --- Southeastern Europe --- EU countries --- Euroland --- Europe --- Foreign relations
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