’This book offers an innovative and valuable approach to the subject of the European Union's engagement with the Western Balkans. Drawing together country-by-country insights from scholars from the region, it provides a very welcome counter-balance to the existing external perspectives on the EU and the post-Yugoslav space.’ James Ker-Lindsay, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK ’This is a timely and useful analysis of the impact of EU policy on processes of democratic consolidation in the Yugoslav successor states. Written by a new generation of scholars from the region, the chapters elucidate both the positive effects of the EU’s involvement with the post-Yugoslav space and the limitations inherent in all externally driven projects of political transformation.’ Jasna Dragovic-Soso, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK