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- Title
EU Member State-Building in the Western Balkans: (Prolonged) EU-protectorates or new model of sustainable enlargement? Conclusion.
- Authors
Woelk, Jens
- Abstract
More than 20 years after the violent break-up of Yugoslavia European efforts to create sustainable States in the Western Balkans, as discussed in the papers of this Special Issue, have brought about some progress, but a lot of work remains. This conclusion will draw on some of the themes developed in the previous papers and contrast to what extent EU Member State-Building provides a new framework for enlargement and what the key questions of sustainable expansion of the EU and functional state-building through conditionality will be. It concludes that the EU's current engagement with the Western Balkans faces many problems and obstacles and therefore some reconsideration might be necessary.
- Subjects
BALKAN Peninsula; EUROPEAN Union membership; NATION building; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Nationalities Papers, 2013, Vol 41, Issue 3, p469
- ISSN
0090-5992
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/00905992.2013.768978