Integrating the Western Balkans into the EU

Overcoming Mutual Misperceptions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Milica Uvalić, Milica Uvalic, Milica Uvali¿

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Today, the gap between what the Western Balkan politicians and citizens think about the European Union and what the politicians and citizens in the EU member states think about the Western Balkans is probably wider than ever.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-07-26
Mått148 x 210 x 30 mm
Vikt723 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Perspectives on South-East Europe
Antal sidor452
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031322044

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Milica Uvalic is Professor at the University of Perugia, Italy. She was also member of the UN Committee for Development Policy and Assistant Minister in the first post-Milošević government in FR Yugoslavia. Recent publications include Towards Economic Inclusion in the Western Balkans coedited with W. Bartlett (Palgrave, 2022) and The Economic and Investment Plan for the Western Balkans co-authored with W. Bartlett and M. Bonomi (European Parliament, 2022).

Chapter 1: The perceptions of European Union – Western Balkan integration prospects. Introduction and overview.- Part I: Perceptions From the West.- Chapter 2: The drivers of EU financial assistance to the Western Balkans: economic, altruistic or democracy promotion motives?.- Chapter 3: Moving the Western Balkans towards the European Union: The daunting case of Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Chapter 4: Yugoslav partition and post-war EU integration: the role of Italy, 1990-2022.- Chapter 5: The Western Balkans, a German view.- Chapter 6: Imagining Europe in a new and small state: the case of Croatia.- Chapter 7: The United States in the Western Balkans: reluctant, late and distant involvement vs. quick radical fix.- Part II: Regional Perceptions.- Chapter 8: The image of the European Union in the Western Balkans.- Chapter 9: Perceptions and misperceptions of EU conditionality in the Western Balkans: a case of a “capability-expectations gap”?.- Chapter 10: European Union – Western Balkan misperceptions and paradoxes.- Chapter 11: Perceptions of regional cooperation in the Western Balkans.- Chapter 12: The foggy future of the Balkans: in or out of the European Union?.- Part III: Perceptions in Individual Countries.- Chapter 13: European Union and the Western Balkans, an endless story. The case of Albania.- Chapter 14: The role of mis-coordinated European integration mechanisms in decelerating progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s EU accession.- Chapter 15: Pro-EU, no matter what: European Union (mis)perceptions in Kosovo.- Chapter 16: The perception of the EU and its policies: a view from Montenegro.- Chapter 17: Reinforcing or conflicting? EU conditionality and political socialization during the 2015-2017 political crisis in the Republic of North Macedonia.- Chapter 18: Love and hate relationship: media framing of the official political communication about the EU in Serbia’smedia.- Chapter 19: Bridging the perceptions-based gap between the European Union and the Western Balkan.