The Politics of Western Balkan and Montenegrin Integration into the EU Cover Image

Politički aspekti Zapadnog Balkana i crnogorska integracija u Evropsku uniju
The Politics of Western Balkan and Montenegrin Integration into the EU

Author(s): Nenad Koprivica
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Atlantska inicijativa: Udruženje za promicanje euroatlantskih integracija BiH
Keywords: Western Balkan; European Union; integration process; Montenegro; civil society

Summary/Abstract: Regarding the Western Balkans, the chief question today is how to integrate the region into the institutional, political, economic, and cultural mainstream of Europe. Simply by accepting European integration as a strategy for development, Western Balkan countries are bringing about changes to social structures that have had positive effects. But the border between success and failure remains the least guarded in the region; and the question of the Western Balkans remains an issue of significance to the international community. For, while Croatia will become the EU’s 28th member state in July 2013, many of its neighbors in the region have grown disenchanted by enlargement fatigue and by harsh criticism of the accessions of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 12-13
  • Page Range: 100-105
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English