European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession

Conditionality, legitimacy and compliance
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-59684-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

The Balkan countries have responded differently to the EU’s conditional offer of membership. This book examines the diverging compliance patterns of the Balkan accession states and asks why some of them have complied substantially, some only partially and others have defied the EU.

The book examines the compliance of the Balkan states with the EU accession conditionality, arguing that the variation in the compliance behavior of Balkan governments hinges on three main factors – the legitimacy of the EU conditions as seen domestically in the accession states, the costs of compliance and the EU’s ability and willingness to use its superior power resources to impose compliance when faced with domestic defiance. Placing important events from the most recent political history of the Balkans in a broader historical perspective, the author evaluates the successes and failures of the EU’s state building policies in the Balkans, a geographical area of the highest priority for the EU’s foreign policy and a test case for the EU’s capacity and willingness for foreign policy action.

Based on detailed empirical data, European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession will be of interest to scholars and students of EU and comparative politics, and those focusing on policy impact in EU integration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noutcheva, Gergana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction PART I: THEORIES AND CONCEPTS 2. Europeanizaton and the Compliance Patterns of Balkan States 3. Legitimization and European Foreign Policy PART II: THE DYNAMICS OF EU CONDITIONLAITY 4. The Policy of EU Conditionality in the Balkans 5. The Politics of EU Conditionality PART III: THE DYNAMICS OF COMPLIANCE in the balkans 6. The Record of Balkan Compliance with EU Conditionality 7. The Politics of Compliance in the Balkans 8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Gergana Noutcheva is Assistant Professor in International Relations and European Foreign Policy in the Department of Political Science at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.