Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One-Writing the Collapse of Yugoslavia: Existing and Potential Arguments -- Internal Factors -- Economics: Factor of Connectivity -- External Factors -- What Is Yet to Be Examined? -- Conclusion -- Part One: European Community Relations With Yugoslavia -- Chapter Two-The European Community and Yugoslavia from Unofficial to Official Relations -- Getting to Know Each Other -- Communication -- The 1960s: Closer or Looser Ties? -- 1968: The Establishment of Official Relations -- New Dynamics -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three-The European Community and Yugoslavia from Integration to Disintegration -- Introducing New Debates and Greater Concerns -- The 1980s: New Agreement and New Challenges -- 'A Slight Cooling in EEC-Yugoslavia Relations' -- The End of the 1980s -- Yugoslavs in the European Community -- Conclusion -- Part Two: The Role Of Non-State Actors -- Chapter Four-Calling Diaspora and Diaspora Calling: Impact of Diasporas on European Community Policy -- Slovenian Activism -- Croatian Activism -- Diaspora Strategies within the European Community -- Diasporas and Individual European States -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five-Media Power: Media Influence on European Community Policy -- Yugoslav Media and the Public -- Awakening of the Western Media -- European Community Reactions -- Media Relevance for European Decision-Making -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six-With the Blessing of the Vatican: The Catholic Church and European Community Policy -- Between the Yugoslav Leadership and the Vatican -- Religious Aspects of the Yugoslav Crisis -- From Churches to the Brussels Officials -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- eCopyright.

"Since the early 1990s European involvement in the former-Yugoslav space has shifted from protecting and separating other republics and peoples from Serbia and the Serbs to supporting the new post-Milosevic Serbian elites with the processes of democratization and Europeanization. This paper examines a number of challenges surrounding Serbia's European Union future. Accordingly, while noting that the Brussels administration has continuously confirmed its readiness to provide advice and assistance, the discussion suggests that both the stagnation and progress are likely to rest exclusively with the Serbs themselves." (publisher's description)

This article examines approaches and official discrepancies characterizing Western European rhetoric with regard to the Kosovo status question. Since the early 1980s, Kosovo has been increasingly present in European debates, culminating with the 1999 international intervention in the region and subsequent talks about its final status. Although the Kosovo Albanians proclaimed independence in February 2008 and the majority of the EU member-states decided to recognize Kosovo as an independent state, Western European rhetoric has been rather divided. This article shows that in addition to the five EU members who decided not to recognize Kosovo from the very beginning, and thus are powerful enough to affect its further progress both locally and internationally, some of the recognizers, although they have abandoned the policy of 'standards before status', have also struggled to develop full support for the province - a discrepancy that surely questions the overall Western support for Kosovo's independence. Adapted from the source document.