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This book seeks to explain why the EU has been able to transform, even strengthen, the states in the Western Balkans. The EU does so through state building, yet it faces local resistance. Contributions by leading experts of the region explain the specifics on the ground and help to explain the difficult path these countries face from the demise of Yugoslavia to possibly joining the European Union. This volume brings to the fore the weakness in the EU external policy approach of reaching out to the political elites in the countries of the Western Balkans without giving a clear signal a policy that clearly has had at best mixed results in the region. This path-breaking book is a must read for anyone with an interest in the developments in South Eastern Europe.

Amy Verdun is Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam, and the Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, at the University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada

The EU and Member State Building

This book critically examines the process of state building by the European Union, focusing on its attempts to build Member States in the Western Balkan region.

This book analyses the EUs policies towards, and the impact they have upon the states of the Western Balkans, and assesses how these affect the nature of EU foreign policy. To this end, it focuses on the tools and mechanisms that the EU employs in its enlargement policy and examines the new instruments of direct intervention (in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Kosovo), political coercion (in the case of Croatia and Serbia in relation to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia) and stricter conditionality in the Western Balkan countries.

The book discusses the key aim of this special form of state building, which is to establish functional liberal-democratic states in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia in order for them to join the EU and to cope with the responsibilities and pressures of membership in the future. However, the authors argue that while the EU sees itself as an international actor that promotes and protects liberal-democratic values, norms and principles, its experiences in the Western Balkans demonstrate how the EUs actions in the region have undermined the basic principles of democratic decision-making (such as the European support for impositions in Bosnia and Herzegovina) and international law (Kosovo), and have consequently contributed to new tensions (the police reform in Bosnia, and the tensions between Kosovo and Serbia) and dependencies.

This book will be of much interest to students of state building, EU politics, global governance and International Relations/Security Studies in general.

Soeren Keil is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK.

Zeynep Arkan is Lecturer in International Relations at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey.

Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

Series Editor: David Chandler

Statebuilding and Intervention

Policies, practices and paradigms

Edited by David Chandler

Reintegration of Armed Groups After Conflict

Politics, violence and transition

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Security, Development, and the Fragile State

Bridging the gap between theory and policy

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Kosovo, Intervention and Statebuilding

The international community and the transition to independence

Edited by Aidan Hehir

Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect

Interrogating theory and practice

Edited by Philip Cunliffe

Statebuilding and Police Reform

The freedom of security

Barry J. Ryan

Violence in Post-Conflict Societies

Remarginalisation, remobilisers and relationships

Anders Themnr

Statebuilding in Afghanistan

Multinational contributions to reconstruction

Edited by Nik Hynek and Pter Marton

The International Community and Statebuilding

Getting its act together?

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Statebuilding and State-Formation

The political sociology of intervention

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Political Economy of Statebuilding

Power after peace

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New Agendas in Statebuilding

Hybridity, contingency and history

Edited by Robert Egnell and Peter Haldn

Mediation and Liberal Peacebuilding

Peace from the ashes of war?

Edited by Mikael Eriksson and Roland Kosti

Semantics of Statebuilding

Language, meanings and sovereignty

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Humanitarian Crises, Intervention and Security

A framework for evidence-based programming

Edited by Liesbet Heyse, Andrej Zwitter, Rafael Wittek and Joost Herman

Internal Security and Statebuilding

Aligning agencies and functions

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The EU and Member State Building

European foreign policy in the Western Balkans

Edited by Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan

The EU and Member State Building

European foreign policy in the Western Balkans

Edited by Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan

First published 2015

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The EU and member state building : European foreign policy in the Western Balkans / edited by Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan.

pages cm. (Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. European UnionBalkans. 2. Balkan PeninsulaForeign economic relationsEuropean Union countries.

3. European Union countriesForeign economic relationsBalkan Peninsula. 4. Balkan PeninsulaPolitics and government19895. Nation-buildingBalkan Peninsula. I. Keil, Soeren. II. Arkan, Zeynep.

HC240.25.B28E83 2014

341.242209496dc23

2014023390

ISBN: 978-0-415-85518-1 (hbk)

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