Solioz Thinking the Balkans out of the Box

EU Integration and Regional Cooperation - Challenges, Models, Lessons
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8452-8553-5
Verlag: Nomos
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 11, 189 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm

Reihe: Southeast European Integration Perspectives

Thinking the Balkans out of the Box moves away from narrow and conventional, often state-centred, understandings of European integration and regional cooperation in relation to South East Europe.
Based on case studies, this book presents both common and specific features of integration and region-building within the framework of “early”, “old”, “new” and “comparative regionalism” approaches, which the author sees as complementary rather than mutually exclusive.
Using a long-term timeline, the author contextualises these four waves in the post-Second World War era, the Cold War period, the post-Cold War era, and our current hypertext or multiplex world order respectively. In the latter, integration and regionalisation become significantly more intertwined, heterogeneous, open, inclusive, comprehensive and multidimensional.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Solioz, Christophe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2; Bridging the Gap;17
2.1; Rethinking Integration and Regional Cooperation Together;17
2.2; Theoretical Framework;21
2.3; Organisation of the Book;26
3;Part 1 . The EU Integration Process;31
3.1;1.1. Outside, Inside and Between;33
3.1.1; In the Age of Flex Lives;33
3.1.2; The Lost Momentum;35
3.1.3; Imbalance Between the Technical and Political Levels;39
3.1.4; From Lisbon Onwards;43
3.1.5; What Should be Done Need not Wait;45
3.2;1.2. Breaking the Chains of Weariness;49
3.2.1; The EU: With Divides or Flexibility?;49
3.2.2; A New EU in a New World Order;53
3.2.3; Enlargement: Wider or/and Deeper?;56
3.2.4; Enlargement: Who, When and How;58
4;Part 2 . SEE in a Broader Framework;65
4.1;2.1. See Regional Levels in Europe;67
4.1.1; Conceptualizing Region and Regionalism;67
4.1.2; Europe’s Multiple Regional Groupings;78
4.1.3; Euro-regions in the Framework of the Council of Europe;84
4.1.4; Territorial Cooperation in the Framework of the EU;90
4.2;2.2. SEE Region-ness “Under Construction”;105
4.2.1; SEE: from State-Building to Region-ness;105
4.2.2; Multiple Regionalisms in South East Europe;112
4.2.3; Region-ness in Wider Europe;121
4.3;2.3. SEE the Bigger Picture;133
4.3.1; The Necessity of a Comprehensive Framework;135
4.3.2; Structural Challenges in SEE;142
4.3.3; Going Regional;151
5;Part 3 . Thinking, Venturing Beyond;157
5.1; Conclusion. Rethinking the New World Order;159
5.1.1; A New Copernican Revolution;160
5.1.2; Visualising the New World Order;163
5.1.3; Another BRIC(k) in The Wall;168
5.1.4; The China Dream;170
5.1.5; Rethinking Regionalism Away from “Western Values”?;172
5.1.6; Learning from Athens;174
6; Bibliography;177