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Abstract
This book investigates and explains the European Union's approach to conflict resolution in three countries of the Western Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo. In doing so, it critically interrogates claims that the EU acts as an agent of conflict transformation in its engagement with conflict-affected states. The book argues, contrary to the assumptions of much of the existing literature, that rather than seeking the transformation of conflicts, the EU pursues a more conservative strategy based on the regulation of conflict through the promotion of institutional mechanisms such as consociational power sharing and decentralisation. Drawing on discourse analysis of documents, speeches, and interviews conducted by the author with European Union officials and policy-makers in Brussels and the case-study countries, the book offers a theoretically grounded, methodologically rigorous and empirically detailed analysis of EU policy preferences, of the ideas that underpin them, and of how those preferences are legitimised. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested in ethnic conflict and conflict resolution, the politics of the Balkans, and the external and foreign policies of the EU.
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Theoretical framework; A note on methods; Structure of the book; Note; 1 The EU and approaches to conflict resolution; Mechanisms of EU influence over conflicts; Foreign policy mechanisms; Conflict resolution through integration and association; The EU's conceptualisation of conflict resolution; Understanding conflict transformation; Approaches to institutional design in deeply divided societies; Consociationalism; Centripetalism; Power dividing
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- A note on methods -- Structure of the book -- Note -- 1 The EU and approaches to conflict resolution -- Mechanisms of EU influence over conflicts -- Foreign policy mechanisms -- Conflict resolution through integration and association -- The EU's conceptualisation of conflict resolution -- Understanding conflict transformation -- Approaches to institutional design in deeply divided societies -- Consociationalism -- Centripetalism -- Power dividing -- Institutional design, identity and conflict transformation -- The need for a better understanding of the EU's approach to conflict resolution -- Summary -- Notes -- 2 Bosnia and Herzegovina: (not) reforming an ideal-typical consociation -- Historical background -- The Bosnian War -- The Dayton Agreement and its discontents -- EU policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Understanding the construction of EU conflict resolution policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- The changing rationale for constitutional reform -- Bosnia and Herzegovina's ongoing identity conflict -- Interpreting nationalist mobilisation -- Framing and legitimation of EU policies -- Summary -- Notes -- 3 Macedonia: constitutional engineering in a time of crisis -- Macedonia's conflict in context -- Avoiding conflict in the 1990s -- The 2001 crisis and its explanation(s) -- Managing conflict in Macedonia -- The role of the EU -- The Ohrid Framework Agreement -- Understanding the construction of EU conflict resolution policy in Macedonia -- Narrating the 2001 crisis -- Understanding Ohrid: policy learning or the art of the possible? -- Framing Ohrid as a 'European' settlement -- Summary -- Notes -- 4 Kosovo: establishing a 'multi-ethnic society'?
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