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Pre-enlargement Reform Failures in the Western Balkans: Social and Economic Preconditions of the Rule of Law
In this paper, I investigate the attempts of the European Union to promote and entrench the rule of law standards in the Western Balkans countries. I...
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Western Balkans Regimes Between European Democracy and Autocracy
The Regime Index has divided 45 European countries into five categories according to the level of their democracy. The Western European countries and...
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EU Civilian CSDP Missions and the Consolidation of the Rule of Law in the Western Balkans
This chapter aims at presenting the functioning of the civilian crisis management missions deployed to date by the European Union (EU) in the Western...
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The EU Rule of Law Initiative Towards the Western Balkans
The EU adopted a new enlargement strategy for the Western Balkans countries in 2018, provided a time frame for Serbia and Montenegro potentially to...
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Gender Pay Gap in the Western Balkans: Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men?
This paper analyses systemic differences between average wages of women and men (raw or unadjusted gender pay gap) in the six Western Balkans...
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The Western Balkans on the Way to the EU: Revisiting EU Conditionality
In this paper, the author systemically analyses the European Union accession conditionality applied in respect of Western Balkan countries and...
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The Rule of Law, Peacebuilding, and Agenda 2030: Lessons from the Western Balkans
The rule of law, understood as both a legal concept and a political project, is an essential underpinning of success in the progressive achievement...
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Compulsory Adjudication: An Emerging Principle of European Law and the Western Balkans’ Accession to the European Union?
The principle of compulsory adjudication appears to be of great practical importance for the EU Member States and Western Balkan states, especially...
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EU Enlargement Policy Goes East: Historical and Comparative Takes on the EU’s Rule of Law Conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine
The article discusses a unique case of the EU’s application of rule of law conditionality vis-à-vis Ukraine, while the latter is in active war with...
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EU Conditionality in the Western Balkans: Does It Lead to Criminalisation of Migration?
The responses of the European Union (EU) to migration challenges transcend the territories of the EU Member States and through externalisation of...
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An Introduction to the Legal Cultures of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia (Western Balkan)
This chapter explores the legal cultures of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia through an analysis of institutional and intellectual...
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The Security Implications of Enlargement on EU Fundamentals
Considering the three different approaches that have characterized the evolution of the EU’s enlargement policy, this chapter will show that the...
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Covid-19, State-Power and Society in Europe Focus on Western Balkans
This book explores the current state of society in Europe in general and the regimes and societies of the Western Balkans in particular. The pandemic...
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Stabilization of the Western Balkans and the Impact of the Rule of Law on the Prosecution of War Crimes in Kosovo: Some Reflections on the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office
This chapter focuses on the EU’s efforts to promote stabilization in the Western Balkans, particularly with regard to Kosovo. The creation of the...
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Solidarity and Rule of Law The New Dimension of EU Security
This book offers an authentic and original perspective on the principles of solidarity and rule of law that are variously interconnected and...
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Insufficient Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Superfluity of Corruption
While having several overlap** features with other indices, this particular group is focused on the legal framework within the state, the rule of...
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Quick Fix Solutions-Anticorruption as Core/Peripheral Modality of the ‘Rule of Law’
Anticorruption has become the fulcrum of conditionalities for unstable democracies. In the EU, antigraft packages formed the common denominator of...
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Building on Core Strengths: Lessons from Justice Sector Reform in Albania
Kick-started by a unanimous decision by parliament in 2016, rule of law reform in Albania is the first radical attempt in the Western Balkans at...
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A Look Behind the Legal Scene: Philosophical Stakeholder Responses to Fundamental Human Rights
This chapter takes a step behind the legal scene by exploring the theoretical stakeholder frameworks that have contributed to different approaches to...
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Afterword. The New Dimension of EU Security in a Transnational Justice and Governance System
The title of this epilogue intends to highlight the results of the research carried out within the Jean Monnet Module ‘EU-Western Balkans Cooperation...