The Ambivalent Role of the EU in the Western Balkans – “Limited Europeanisation” between Formal Promises and Practical Constrain
It became a shared opinion among European policy-makers to state that without a serious commitment from the European Union (EU), the Western Balkans (WB) will find itself increasingly isolated from the unfolding developments around it and this may endanger the stability of the entire continent. The...
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| author | Iordan Gheorghe Bărbulescu Miruna Troncotă |
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| description | It became a shared opinion among European policy-makers to state that without a serious commitment from the European Union (EU), the Western Balkans (WB) will find itself increasingly isolated from the unfolding developments around it and this may endanger the stability of the entire continent. The scope of this paper is two folded: first, to examine the role of the EU in the WB with a focus on democratic institution-building; second, taking Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) as a case study, the article aims to determine whether there is a need for a new theoretical framework in order to more accurately define the specific process of the Europeanisation in the WB. In this regard it proposes the term “limited Europeanisation”. The main theoretical aim of the article is to identify some clear-cut criteria of this phenomenon in the last 14-year evolution of BiH in relation with the EU. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1ecfe014bb7c4a2db56a4cf8338074ce2025-08-20T03:30:04ZengEuropean Institute of RomaniaRomanian Journal of European Affairs1582-82711841-42732012-03-01121526The Ambivalent Role of the EU in the Western Balkans – “Limited Europeanisation” between Formal Promises and Practical ConstrainIordan Gheorghe Bărbulescu0Miruna Troncotă1Jean Monnet Professor of European Studies at the National School for Political Studies and Administration, Chair of the Department of International Relations and European Integration (Bucharest, Romania)PhD candidate at the National School for Political Studies and Administration, RomaniaIt became a shared opinion among European policy-makers to state that without a serious commitment from the European Union (EU), the Western Balkans (WB) will find itself increasingly isolated from the unfolding developments around it and this may endanger the stability of the entire continent. The scope of this paper is two folded: first, to examine the role of the EU in the WB with a focus on democratic institution-building; second, taking Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) as a case study, the article aims to determine whether there is a need for a new theoretical framework in order to more accurately define the specific process of the Europeanisation in the WB. In this regard it proposes the term “limited Europeanisation”. The main theoretical aim of the article is to identify some clear-cut criteria of this phenomenon in the last 14-year evolution of BiH in relation with the EU.https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_2012_vol12_no1_The-Ambivalent-Role-of-the-EU-in-the-Western-Balkans_2.pdfbosnia and herzegovinademocratisationeuropeanisationinstitution buildingwestern balkans |
| spellingShingle | Iordan Gheorghe Bărbulescu Miruna Troncotă The Ambivalent Role of the EU in the Western Balkans – “Limited Europeanisation” between Formal Promises and Practical Constrain Romanian Journal of European Affairs bosnia and herzegovina democratisation europeanisation institution building western balkans |
| title | The Ambivalent Role of the EU in the Western Balkans – “Limited Europeanisation” between Formal Promises and Practical Constrain |
| title_full | The Ambivalent Role of the EU in the Western Balkans – “Limited Europeanisation” between Formal Promises and Practical Constrain |
| title_fullStr | The Ambivalent Role of the EU in the Western Balkans – “Limited Europeanisation” between Formal Promises and Practical Constrain |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Ambivalent Role of the EU in the Western Balkans – “Limited Europeanisation” between Formal Promises and Practical Constrain |
| title_short | The Ambivalent Role of the EU in the Western Balkans – “Limited Europeanisation” between Formal Promises and Practical Constrain |
| title_sort | ambivalent role of the eu in the western balkans limited europeanisation between formal promises and practical constrain |
| topic | bosnia and herzegovina democratisation europeanisation institution building western balkans |
| url | https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_2012_vol12_no1_The-Ambivalent-Role-of-the-EU-in-the-Western-Balkans_2.pdf |
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