Integrating the Balkans
Author | : Máire Braniff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 0755692713 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780755692712 |
Rating | : 4/5 (712 Downloads) |
Download or read book Integrating the Balkans written by Máire Braniff and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from a decade of violent ethnic and inter-state conflict during the 1990s, the countries of the Western Balkans entered a phase of rebuilding and reconciliation. Due to the key role played by the EU in the region's rebuilding efforts, "Integrating the Balkans" explores this institution's considerable efforts to influence and shape the nature of state, society and foreign relations, as it utilised the promise of membership as a vital tool to exert its influence. The picture that materialises is one of the EU's discernible, but often contradictory, impact as it offers the carr.