European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession: Conditionality, Legitimacy and Compliance

by Gergana Noutcheva

Book Overview

The Balkan countries have responded differently to the EU's conditional offer of membership. This book examines the diverging compliance patterns of the Balkan accession states and asks why some of them have complied substantially, some only partially and others have defied the EU.

The book examines the compliance of the Balkan states with the EU accession conditionality, arguing that the variation in the compliance behavior of Balkan governments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041559684X
• ISBN13: 9780415596848
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"