Integrating the Balkans conflict resolution and the mmpact of EU expansion - Braniff, Máire (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
List of Tables; Glossary and Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The EU Enlargement Approach and Conflict Transformation; 2. The EU, Croatia and Serbia, 1990-99; 3. EU Enlargement: Evolution, Lesson Learning and Policy Impact
Emerging from a decade of violent ethnic and inter-state conflict during the 1990s, the countries of the Western Balkans entered a phase of rebuilding and reconciliation. Due to the key role played by the EU in the region's rebuilding efforts, "Integrating the Balkans" explores this institution's considerable efforts to influence and shape the nature of state, society and foreign relations, as it utilised the promise of membership as a vital tool to exert its influence. The picture that materialises is one of the EU's discernible, but often contradictory, impact as it offers the carr
Keywords: European Union; Europäische Union; Since 1989; Balkan Peninsula / Foreign relations / European Union countries; Balkan Peninsula / Politics and government / 1989-; European Union countries / Foreign relations / Balkan Peninsula; Nation-building / Balkan; History; Political Science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Diplomatic relations; Nation-building; Political science; Außenpolitik; Diplomatische Beziehungen; Geschichte; Politik; Politische Wissenschaft; Nation-building -- Balkan Peninsula; Politische Reform; Europäische Union. Mitgliedsstaaten; Westbalkanstaaten; Balkanhalbinsel