Overview
- Puts forward a theoretical framework emphasizing the role of domestic agency in processes of differential empowerment
- Highlights the presence of strategic mobilisation among domestic actors
- Advocates a more dynamic, actor-focused understanding of the Europeanisation process
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)
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This book examines civil society empowerment during the EU enlargement process. Building on extensive fieldwork, it compares mobilisation around rule of law issues in Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia. Moving beyond the traditional focus on the top-down impact of EU support, it demonstrates NGOs’ agency and analyses their shifting strategies throughout the membership negotiations. Its approach and findings will appeal to scholars and advanced students of EU integration, social movements, and the politics of South East Europe.
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Keywords
- European Union
- EU enlargement
- EU accession process
- civil society
- Western Balkans
- civil society mobilisation
- domestic policy-making
- EU membership
- EU candicacy
- civil society empowerment
- Croatia
- Croatian civil society
- Montenegro
- Montenegrin civil society
- Serbia
- Serbian civil society
- civil society organisations
- sustainable mobilisation
- european union politics
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of new modes of governance in the Western Balkans …. It provides an empirically-grounded, comparative perspective on the impact of EU accession on state and non-state actors that is meticulous, detailed, and truly ‘bottom-up’. It will rapidly become a key reference for scholars interested in the region, the impact of Europeanisation, and the ubiquitous institutions of ‘civil society.” (Adam Fagan, Professor of European Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK)
“A comprehensive and insightful study into the growth, empowerment and limitations of civil society in the Western Balkans region that brings a timely and much needed shift away from a Eurocentric approach.” (Antoaneta Dimitrova, Professor of Comparative Governance, Leiden University, The Netherlands)
“This excellent book makes a well-researched, timely contribution to the literature on the European Union’s impact on the rule of law in EU candidate countries. Through in-depth original research, it demonstrates convincingly the scope and limits of civil society empowerment during the EU accession process.”(Ulrich Sedelmeier, Associate Professor in the International Relations of Europe, London School of Economics, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Natasha Wunsch is Postdoctoral Researcher in the European Politics Group at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Associate Fellow with the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). Her research has appeared, among others, in the Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Acta Politica, and East European Politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: EU Enlargement and Civil Society in the Western Balkans
Book Subtitle: From Mobilisation to Empowerment
Authors: Natasha Wunsch
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91845-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91844-0Published: 11 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06310-8Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91845-7Published: 27 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-5873
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 171
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Union Politics, International Organization, European Politics, Political Communication, Comparative Politics