Research Catalog

Title

The EU and member state building : European foreign policy in the Western Balkans / edited by Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan.

Publication

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Keil, Soeren.
• Arkan, Zeynep.

Description

xv, 247 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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

Series Statement

Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding.

Subject

• European Union > Balkan Peninsula
• European Union
• Since 1989
• Nation-building > Balkan Peninsula
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security
• HISTORY / Europe / General
• International economic relations
• Nation-building
• Politics and government
• UE/CE Etats membres
• UE/CE Intégration
• UE/CE Relations extérieures
• Reconstruction de l'État
• UE/CE Elargissement
• Balkan Peninsula > Foreign economic relations > European Union countries
• European Union countries > Foreign economic relations > Balkan Peninsula
• Balkan Peninsula > Politics and government > 1989-
• Balkan Peninsula
• Europe > European Union countries
• Europe du Sud-Est

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 15-4729

ISBN

• 9780415855181 (hardback)
• 0415855187 (hardback)
• 0415817293
• 9780415817295
• 9780415855181 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2014023390
• 40024588491

OCLC

890814136

Title

The EU and member state building : European foreign policy in the Western Balkans / edited by Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan.

Publisher

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding

Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1989

Added Author

Keil, Soeren.

Arkan, Zeynep.

Other Standard Identifier

40024588491

Research Call Number

JFE 15-4729