Overview
- Provides a dialectical analysis of the mutual transformations of institutions and agencies in the EU, as well as issues of complex integration and non-linear developments
- Goes right to the heart of the EU as polity, its transformations and asymmetries of power
- Analyses statistics, policy documents and interviews of administrators and politicians in Brussels and in the Western Balkans.
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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About this book
This book sheds light on the contradictions underlying the European Union enlargement process, specifically to the Western Balkans, challenging the common assumption that the integration of an extended European space might be possible without mutual transformation of the institutions and agencies involved.
Sekulić maps the institutional dimension of the accession process, and analyses how the conditionality principle shapes and constrains the space for negotiation within the EU. Combining ethnographic research with the discourse analysis of the European Commission’s reports and documents from 2008 to 2019 concerning the Western Balkan countries, the book also explores the perceptions and agency of the individuals involved in this process. The European Union and the Paradox of Enlargement will be of interest to students and scholars of European integration, the sociology of Europe and the EU, and Eastern European and Western Balkan studies.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“The book stands out among other publications devoted to the issues of the accession of the Western Balkan states to the European Union. The research goals set by the author are fully achieved, which is not an easy task with such a complex and multifaceted subject of analysis. The book will appeal not only to researchers, students, and commentators of political life, but also to practitioners who decide on the dynamics of integration of the ‘old continent’, Europe.” (Kamil Glinka, Comparative Southeast European Studies, Vol. 70 (4), 2022)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tatjana Sekulić is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The European Union and the Paradox of Enlargement
Book Subtitle: The Complex Accession of the Western Balkans
Authors: Tatjana Sekulić
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42295-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42294-3Published: 27 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42297-4Published: 28 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42295-0Published: 26 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 240
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour