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The (geo)politics of democracy in wider Europe : step one
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Jelena DŽANKIĆ , Biljana KOTEVSKA and Lucia MOKRÁ (eds), The (geo)politics of democracy in wider Europe, Florence : European University Institute, 2025, pp. 1-6
Global Governance Programme; [Southeastern Europe]
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DZANKIC, Jelena, KOTEVSKA, Biljana, MOKRÁ, Lucia, The (geo)politics of democracy in wider Europe : step one, in Jelena DŽANKIĆ , Biljana KOTEVSKA and Lucia MOKRÁ (eds), The (geo)politics of democracy in wider Europe, Florence : European University Institute, 2025, pp. 1-6, Global Governance Programme, [Southeastern Europe] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/93763
Abstract
When we started to think about this book, back in Autumn 2024, the world looked perhaps a little bit different. Indeed, the global geopolitical planes had already been shifted with the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war in Gaza. While removed from the Western Balkan region, which had been our original focus, these geopolitical shifts have revealed how intimately connected democracy is to geopolitics, and how vulnerable are nascent democratic societies to external influence. Hence our initial goal was to look at the interplay between the European Union (EU) enlargement and democratic development, and how it has been affected by the political, economic and cultural influences of undemocratic third actors across the Western Balkan states. Such dependencies, including China’s rising economic influence, Russian religious and media impact, investments from the Gulf States and Türkiye have often been described as the by-product of the stalemate in the EU enlargement process, and the Union’s continuous prioritisation of stability over democracy (Bieber 2018).
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Published online: June 2025