Integrating the Western Balkans into the EU: Overcoming Mutual Misperceptions (New Perspectives on South-East Europe)

Integrating the Western Balkans into the EU: Overcoming Mutual Misperceptions (New Perspectives on South-East Europe)
by: Milica Uvalić (Editor)
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 26 July 2023
Language:English
Print Length:476 pages
ISBN-10:3031322045
ISBN-13:9783031322044
Book Description
Among the main stumbling blocks of European Union-Western Balkan integration are the differences in perceptions on both sides. Today, the gap between what the Western Balkan politicians and citizens think about the European Union and what the politicians and citizens in the EU member states think about the Western Balkans is probably wider than ever. This volume offers fresh insights about these misperceptions and how to possibly bridge the gap. It examines perceptions about the region’s “European perspectives” both on the side of the six Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia – and the key European Union member states (Italy, Germany, Croatia), international donors, USA. An analysis of the diverse views regarding the prospects of EU – Western Balkan integration is today highly relevant, in view of the current uncertainties regarding European Union’s enlargement policy, particularly after the attack of Russia on Ukraine and candidate status granted to Ukraine and Moldova.
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