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Simić, P.: Do the Balkan exist : visions of the future of Southeastern Europe. - S. 13-30 Ilić, G.: The European Union and its southeast European neighbors, first part and secon part. - S. 31-136 Isaković, Z.: NATO and South-Eastern Europe : the powerlessness of the powerful and the power of weak in ethnic conflicts. - S. 137-158 Krastev, I.: De-Balkanizing the Balkans. - S. 159-172 Stanchev, K.: The Balkans in 2010 : economic scenarios. - S. 173-195

Reassesses the democratic quality of European integrationAdvances the understanding of what twenty-first century democracy in Europe is and what it can bePresents new perspectives on under-explored dilemmas related to specific aspects of democracy in the context of European integration and against the background of political shifts in Europe in recent decadesProvides an alternative to 'grand theory' approaches to EU democracy and scholarly debates on the EU's 'democratic deficit'Includes chapters by leading scholars in the field, that supply new perspectives on democratic dilemmas from the point of view of in-depth engagements with key aspects of European democracyBringing together leading and emerging scholars on European politics, this collection explores how dilemmas associated with key democratic concepts can be understood in relation to the EU.The book renews our understanding of EU democracy in ways that are more attentive to the multiple fault lines and cleavages that structure this political order. It focuses on a set of democratic dilemmas inherent to EU democracy, including representation, deliberation, sovereignty, citizenship, democratic contestation and market, to provide discussions on the specific tensions and trade-offs associated to a particular concept. The book engages in the theoretical groundwork necessary for assessing and analysing the specific dilemmas that arise when translating democratic concepts into concrete institutional designs in the European setting

This note reports the results of a survey of all the articles on EU policies published since 1994 in three major journals. It makes four recommendations. We should probably invest more research time on (1) established policy areas that are at the core of the Union, (2) the study of policy adjudication and the role of courts in the EU policy process, (3) confirmatory theory-testing research and (4) strategies that increase the number of observations, in order to make more use of statistical estimation techniques.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: What is 'Health in All Policies'? -- Chapter 3: Where is 'health' in EU governance? -- Chapter 4: How can we research 'Health in All Policies' in the EU? -- Chapter 5: Setting the scene: Are EU institutions 'HiAP-friendly'? -- Chapter 6: Going deeper: Is it about more than institutions? -- Chapter 7: Shifting focus: Why did 'Health in All Policies' still reach the EU? -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.