EU’s Conditionality and the Western Balkans’ Accession Roads
EU’s Conditionality and the Western Balkans’ Accession Roads

Summary/Abstract: Conditionality is widely imposed on the applicant countries by the EU during its Eastern Enlargement in pursuit of promotion of human rights, democratization and ‘good governance’. It has played a very important role in enhancing the democratic reform, market economy, legal and law constructions of target countries, thus making those countries reach the EU standards, and being accepted by the EU into the bloc. In this article, the author summarizes three fundamental patterns of the EU’s conditionality, i.e., pattern of positive and negative conditionality, pattern of conditionality-appliance and pattern of technical conditionality by analyzing the EU’s conflict resolution policies in the western Balkans. The author also expounds the background and characteristics of these three patterns , and compares their advantages, disadvantages and prospects. In the end, the author gives his comments on the three conditionality patterns from Chinese perspective.

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