{"product_id":"european-foreign-policy-and-the-challenges-of-balkan-accession-9781138819917","title":"European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Balkan countries have responded differently to the EU's conditional offer of membership. This book examines the diverging compliance patterns of the Balkan accession states and asks why some of them have complied substantially, some only partially and others have defied the EU.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book examines the compliance of the Balkan states with the EU accession conditionality, arguing that the variation in the compliance behavior of Balkan governments hinges on three main factors  the legitimacy of the EU conditions as seen domestically in the accession states, the costs of compliance and the EU's ability and willingness to use its superior power resources to impose compliance when faced with domestic defiance. Placing important events from the most recent political history of the Balkans in a broader historical perspective, the author evaluates the successes and failures of the EU's state building policies in the Balkans, a geographical area of the highest priority for the EU's fo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this groundbreaking and exemplary study, Noutcheva explains why Western Balkan states have varied so much in their compliance with the European Union's accession requirements: When matters of national sovereignty and territory are on the table, the EU lacks the legitimacy to impose a solution. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, this book offers a comprehensive study of the EU's foreign and enlargement policies in the Western Balkans -- and helps us understand the limits of the EU's so-called normative power.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMilada Anna Vachudova\u003c\/strong\u003e, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction \u003cstrong\u003ePART I: THEORIES AND CONCEPTS\u003c\/strong\u003e 2. Europeanizaton and the Compliance Patterns of Balkan States 3. Legitimization and European Foreign Policy \u003cstrong\u003ePART II: THE DYNAMICS OF EU CONDITIONLAITY\u003c\/strong\u003e 4. The Policy of EU Conditionality in the Balkans 5. The Politics of EU Conditionality \u003cstrong\u003ePART III: THE DYNAMICS OF COMPLIANCE\u003c\/strong\u003e in the balkans 6. The Record of Balkan Compliance with EU Conditionality 7. The Politics of Compliance in the Balkans 8. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019529290071,"sku":"9781138819917","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/european-foreign-policy-and-the-challenges-of-balkan-accession-9781138819917","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}