Southeastern Europe has been left out of the current wave of European Union enlargement.
Still, it is a region which is in many ways integrated with the European Union. Indeed, the …

ABSTRACT The European Union needs clarity regarding the nature of its relationship with
the Western Balkans, the goals it wants to achieve in the mid-future and the level of …

Where is The Balkans? Until recently such a question would have sounded rather stupid. At
the beginning of the1990s however, as a result of the wars in Yugoslavia and due to a …

The European Union (EU) cannot just see itself as a global player1 but has to show that it is
one. Regional integration is a crucial test for the EU's credibility of becoming a global player …

The turbulence of the war in the Balkans has been an external motivation for a rapid
development of the European foreign policy, to establish security and stability through …

published in December 2003 which highlighted the EU's collective understanding of global
security challenges. 2 Where the Western Balkans are specifically concerned, the EU plays …

Sažetak After the enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe, the process of European
integration has advanced, but it is still not complete. Twenty countries are still not members …

Abstract The Western Balkans is a politically, economically, and socially diverse region. It
has severe structural development problems that are common in all parts of the region …

The main motivation for this book derives from a simple fact: the process of political
integration into the European Union (EU) of the six Western Balkan countries—Albania …

Recent enlargement of the EU beyond its traditional Western confines has made it a broad
and heterogeneous institution. In the case of the Western Balkan states, the EU has an …