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The volume aims to examine Europeanization of Montenegro, a
regional frontrunner among all Western Balkans in the EU
integration process, through EU impact on domestic governmental
changes by focusing on three political membership conditions of the
EU: judicial reform, fight against the corruption, and development
of regional cooperation and good neighbourly relations. This book
is based on the argument of the EU transformative power having
produced negatively reinforcing effects in key accession criteria
in the candidate country within the ten years of integration
period. The given deficiency of fulfilment of political conditions
in Montenegro is, on the one hand, primarily the result of an
inconsistent and inefficient EU conditional policy, and
unfavourable domestic factors to appropriately conduct reform
activities, thus resulting in generally weak and mitigating reform
progress. In addition, the book has claimed that the effective
adoption and alignment with the EU accession demands does not
solely depend on interdependency of the EU and domestic factors (as
it was explained by the Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier theory of
Europeanization), but rather it also substantially depends on
influence of other international factors, namely the influence of
Russia and China in the Western Balkan region. The state's
possibility to choose the policies of alternatives instead of
opportunities i.e. to cooperate with other international factors
which do not question political legitimacy of the domestic ruling
elites nor do they interfere into internal political affairs, has
significantly affected reduction of euphoria for the advance in the
EU accession process with the domestic political leaders. The
current EU foreign policy in the form of the enlargement process
more likely contains characteristics of charade in the process of
European integration of Montenegro. This particular point may be
witnessed not only when the case of Montenegro is taken into
consideration, but also when the rest of the Balkans is, in terms
of the EU enlargement policy that is, analysed.
The main theme of this book revolves around the idea of
Europeanization of the Western Balkans. In that respect, the volume
discusses the fight against corruption and regional relations in
former Yugoslav states, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo,
Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. The objective of the book is to
detect the level of effectiveness of the EU impact on domestic
structural changes in the Western Balkans regarding aforementioned
research issues. The contributors argue that the EU impact in the
Western Balkans has so far been limited and point to limitations in
this regard. "The book Balkanizing Europeanisation offers timely,
detailed, critical and excellently researched insight into the
complicated mutual relations of the EU and the countries of the
Balkan Peninsula. Based on excellent scholarship, meticulous
original research and first-hand experience with the Balkan area,
the authors provide a reader with rich and profound analysis of
successes and failures of Europeanisation of the Balkan countries.
The volume shall become an obligatory reading for many categories
of scholars, experts, and people practicing diplomacy with and in
the region." Vit Hlousek, Professor of European Politics, Masaryk
University "The limits to and problems connected with processes of
Europeanization in the Western Balkans remain an important topic
both for policy-makers and for scholarly inquiry. Vuckovic and
Dordevic are to be congratulated for having assembled a first-rate
teach of scholars to examine the most vital issues at hand."
Sabrina P. Ramet, Professor of Political Science, The Norwegian
University of Science & Technology
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