An Agenda for Western Balkans : From Elite Politics to Social Sustainability.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- An Agenda for the Western Balkans-Foreword -- The EU Democratization and State-Building in Kosovo: An Analysis Through the Fragmented Local Agency -- (B)ordering in the EU: Croatia's Path Toward Becoming 'European' -- The Challenge of Promoting Green Sectors in Serbia: Between International Demands, National Controversies and Sectoral Struggles -- Still "Waiting for Godot" in Sarajevo? Europeanization of Bosnia and Herzegovina-Between the Contradictions of EU Conditionality and Local Ownership -- Macedonia: The Consequences of the Political Focus on Identity and How This Affects Balkan Politics and the European Integration Process. -- Reinventing the Past: Politics of Memory in the Post-Conflict Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- On the Growing Cooperation Between China and the Western Balkans -- Statehood Without Sovereignty: Risky Negotiations in Post-Independence Kosovo -- Western Europe, Western Balkans: Barriers to Cross-Cultural Encounter.

The Western Balkan countries have been both a popular subject matter for diachronic analysis and a 1990s favorite. The significant changes that followed the most recent times of conflict in the region mostly evolve around the process of Europeanization. Despite the plethora of analyses, most approaches to the Western Balkans suffer from theoretical stagnancy, ex parte political practice, and detachment of politics from societal needs. This volume is the work of a team of theorists and practitioners who attempt a multidisciplinary approach to Western Balkans reality. An Agenda for the Western Balkans offers a critical view on issues that have been over-analyzed in mainstream terms and opens a discussion that will occupy researchers and practitioners for years to come. It addresses novel topics and engages in innovative approaches that cut across disciplines of social sciences (political science, international relations, sociology, historiography, geography, political economy) and levels of analysis (local, national, regional, European, global). This collection is a pioneer theoretical and practical guide towards a sustainable future for the Western Balkans.

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