The Influence of European Integration Process on Serbian Foreign Policy: the Example of Regional Cooperation and Good Neighbourly Relations Cover Image

Утицај процеса европске интеграције на спољну политику Србије: пример регионалне сарадње и добросуседских односа
The Influence of European Integration Process on Serbian Foreign Policy: the Example of Regional Cooperation and Good Neighbourly Relations

Author(s): Uroš Živković
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Центар за хуманистичке науке »Синтезис«
Keywords: European Union; conditionality policy; europeanization; Serbian foreign policy; policy of regional cooperation and good neighbourly relations; Kosovo and Metohija

Summary/Abstract: The membership in the European union turned out to be a very significant motive for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe to conduct reforms, but also to the countries of Western Balkans, although in somewhat different way. Serbia is no exception. Therefore EU gained an important instrument to affect internal and external policy of Serbia. The goal of this paper is to show how this instrument influenced the making and implementation of Serbia’s foreign policy. Firstly, by explaining the terms of conditionality policy and europeanization, secondly, by making a short overview of the basic theoretical approaches on EU’s influence on third countries and finaly, by making arguments to prove the basic hypothesis on the examples of regional cooperation and good neighbourly relations as main characteristic of stabilization and association process.

  • Issue Year: IV/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 109-131
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Serbian