A year later : war in Ukraine and Western Balkan (geo)politics
| dc.contributor.editor | DZANKIC, Jelena | |
| dc.contributor.editor | KACARSKA, Simonida | |
| dc.contributor.editor | KEIL, Soeren | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-25T15:16:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-04-25T15:16:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Russian aggression on Ukraine, started on 24 February 2022, has caused a major swing in global geopolitics. Its symbolic, political, and economic impacts on the Western Balkan states, most of which experienced wars throughout the 1990s, cannot be understated. These impacts are not linear, and political responses to them are at best contradictory. Major political changes are happening across the region, with authoritarian political actors drawing strength or impetus from their association with Russia, or other external actors. The European Union has ostensibly revived its enlargement agenda, but its transformative power has shown significant shortcomings compared to the previous enlargement rounds. The result of this incongruence is little clarity as to how to move ahead, often coupled with mixed messages from the EU to the Western Balkan leaders. This edited collection prizes open the box of these contradictions. One year after the invasion, in this symposium, we reflect on these challenges by gathering insight from 25 scholars, policy makers and civil society representatives from different countries and different subject backgrounds. They all addressed the same question: Has the war in Ukraine profoundly reshaped Western Balkan (geo)politics? In so doing, they provided a multidimensional assessment of the impact of the war in Ukraine as a critical juncture for a European perspective for the Western Balkans. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Funded by the European Union | en |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | -- Introduction. A Year Later: War in Ukraine and Western Balkan (Geo) Politics, Simonida Kacarska, Soeren Keil, and Jelena Džankić -- Broken Promises Diplomacy: The Russia-Ukraine War and the End of Enlargement as We Know It, Veronica Anghel and Erik Jones -- The Ukraine War: Response in the Western Balkans, Dimitar Bechev -- The War in Ukraine: Europe’s Geopolitical Momentum. Will the Western Balkans Take Advantage of It?, Klodiana Beshku -- A “Zeitenwende” in the Balkans after the Russian Attack on Ukraine?, Florian Bieber -- Back on Track? The Impact of War in Ukraine on EU Integration of the Western Balkans, Matteo Bonomi -- A New Geopolitics for the Western Balkans, a Thessaloniki Moment for the Eastern Partners, and a New Big Project for Europe. The Effects of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine on the EU’s Neighbourhood and Enlargement Policies, Davide Denti -- The Russian War Against Ukraine as a Critical Juncture Defining a New Path for EU Enlargement, Antoaneta L. Dimitrova -- The Ukraine War and the Western Balkans: Fault Lines Uncovered, Jelena Džankić -- The Narrow Corridor Towards Democracy: EU Enlargement as an Opportunity to Establish Democratic States and Tackle State Capture in the Western Balkans, Nisida Gjoksi -- Stabilising the Western Balkans through a Common Market: Opportunities and Challenges, Andi Hoxhaj -- Russia Needs the Unstable Balkans, Matea Jerković -- The Impact of Geopolitics following the War in Ukraine on Autocratisation in the Western Balkans, Damir Kapidžić -- Enlargement Politics Based on Geopolitics? A Proposal for a Geopolitics-Driven Enlargement Policy, Soeren Keil -- A Push in EU Integration as a Silver Lining of the Ukraine Tragedy? Insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, Keiichi Kubo -- The Western Balkans’ EU Odyssey: Charting a Course through Geopolitical Winds in the Quest for Accession, Milena Lazarević and Strahinja Subotić -- Enlargement Back on the EU’s Agenda: Western Balkans Moving Slowly Nowhere?, Jovana Marović -- Ukraine War: A Push towards Differentiated Integration for the Western Balkans?, Marko Milenković -- The Impact of the Ukraine War on the Western Balkans: What is at Stake?, Ritsa Panagiotou -- Missed Opportunities: Reheating Stale Policies in the Western Balkans after a Year of War in Ukraine, Valery Perry -- The Advent of Geopolitical Enlargement and its Credibility Dilemma, Frank Schimmelfennig -- The EU’s Geopolitical Test: Western Balkans Amidst Global Security Challenges, Senada Šelo-Šabić -- Russia’s War in Ukraine – An Imagination Challenge for the EU, Corina Stratulat -- The uncertain impact of the Russian–Ukraine war on the Western Balkans, Milica Uvalić | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | San Domenico di Fiesole : European University Institute, 2023 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.2870/275946 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9789294664082 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75524 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
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| dc.publisher | European University Institute | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | RSC | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Global Governance Programme | en |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | Attribution 4.0 International | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
| dc.subject | Western Balkans | en |
| dc.subject | Ukraine | en |
| dc.subject | European Union | en |
| dc.subject | Enlargement | en |
| dc.title | A year later : war in Ukraine and Western Balkan (geo)politics | en |
| dc.type | Book | en |
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