Thinking the Balkans out of the Box: EU Integration and Regional Cooperation - Challenges, Models, Lessons

Cover -- Bridging the Gap -- Rethinking Integration and Regional Cooperation Together -- Theoretical Framework -- Organisation of the Book -- Part 1 . The EU Integration Process -- 1.1. Outside, Inside and Between -- In the Age of Flex Lives -- The Lost Momentum -- Imbalance Between the Technical and Political Levels -- From Lisbon Onwards -- What Should be Done Need not Wait -- 1.2. Breaking the Chains of Weariness -- The EU: With Divides or Flexibility? -- A New EU in a New World Order -- Enlargement: Wider or/and Deeper? -- Enlargement: Who, When and How -- Part 2 . SEE in a Broader Framework -- 2.1. See Regional Levels in Europe -- Conceptualizing Region and Regionalism -- Europe's Multiple Regional Groupings -- Euro-regions in the Framework of the Council of Europe -- Territorial Cooperation in the Framework of the EU -- 2.2. SEE Region-ness "Under Construction" -- SEE: from State-Building to Region-ness -- Multiple Regionalisms in South East Europe -- Region-ness in Wider Europe -- 2.3. SEE the Bigger Picture -- The Necessity of a Comprehensive Framework -- Structural Challenges in SEE -- Going Regional -- Part 3 . Thinking, Venturing Beyond -- Conclusion. Rethinking the New World Order -- A New Copernican Revolution -- Visualising the New World Order -- Another BRIC(k) in The Wall -- The China Dream -- Rethinking Regionalism Away from "Western Values"? -- Learning from Athens -- Bibliography

Cover -- Bridging the Gap -- Rethinking Integration and Regional Cooperation Together -- Theoretical Framework -- Organisation of the Book -- Part 1 . The EU Integration Process -- 1.1. Outside, Inside and Between -- In the Age of Flex Lives -- The Lost Momentum -- Imbalance Between the Technical and Political Levels -- From Lisbon Onwards -- What Should be Done Need not Wait -- 1.2. Breaking the Chains of Weariness -- The EU: With Divides or Flexibility? -- A New EU in a New World Order -- Enlargement: Wider or/and Deeper? -- Enlargement: Who, When and How -- Part 2 . SEE in a Broader Framework -- 2.1. See Regional Levels in Europe -- Conceptualizing Region and Regionalism -- Europe's Multiple Regional Groupings -- Euro-regions in the Framework of the Council of Europe -- Territorial Cooperation in the Framework of the EU -- 2.2. SEE Region-ness "Under Construction" -- SEE: from State-Building to Region-ness -- Multiple Regionalisms in South East Europe -- Region-ness in Wider Europe -- 2.3. SEE the Bigger Picture -- The Necessity of a Comprehensive Framework -- Structural Challenges in SEE -- Going Regional -- Part 3 . Thinking, Venturing Beyond -- Conclusion. Rethinking the New World Order -- A New Copernican Revolution -- Visualising the New World Order -- Another BRIC(k) in The Wall -- The China Dream -- Rethinking Regionalism Away from "Western Values"? -- Learning from Athens -- Bibliography.