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EU Member State-building in the Western Balkans: (Prolonged) EU-protectorates or new model of sustainable enlargement? Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Jens Woelk
Jens Woelk*
Affiliation:
University of Trento und EURAC, Bolzano, Italy
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∗Email: jens.woelk@unitn.it
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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 statebuilding 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.

Keywords

EU Member State-BuildingWestern Balkansconditionality
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 41 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Europeanization, State-Building and Democratization in the Western Balkans , May 2013 , pp. 469 - 482
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Copyright © 2013 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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