[PDF] Embracing Democracy In The Western Balkans eBook

Author : Lenard J. Cohen
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421404332

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2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans offers a comparative, cross-regional study of the politics and economics of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania from 1999 to the present. It was during this period that the first wave of post-communist regime transition ended and the region became more deeply involved in the challenges of democratic consolidation. Lenard J. Cohen and John R. Lampe explore the legacies of communist rule, the impact of incentives and impediments on reform, and the magnetic pull of European Union accession. The authors ask whether the Western Balkans are embracing democracy by creating functional, resilient institutions—governmental, administrative, journalistic, and economic—and fostering popular trust in the legitimacy of those institutions.

Author : Elena Gadjanova
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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A prime political objective of the EU is to bring long-lasting stability to, and foster democratisation in, the Western Balkans. This study provides a snapshot of the state of democracy at the local level in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia (including Kosovo) and Montenegro. It examines a number of factors such as: degree of fiscal and legal autonomy; provisions for citizens' involvement in decision-making; implementation of minority rights; civil society; media. It also looks at the strength and salience of central state institutions, issues of self-determination and ethnicity, and past international involvement. An analysis of the achievements and challenges to democracy at the local level is done on a country-by-country basis.

Author : Kristina Irion
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2018-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9633862604

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This books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia undertook a range of media reforms to conform with accession requirements of the European Union and the standards of the Council of Europe, among others. The essays explore the nexus between the democratic transformation of the media and international media assistance. The cross-national analysis concludes that the effects of international assistance are highly constrained by the local context. From today's vantage point it becomes obvious, that scaling media assistance does not necessarily improve outcomes. The experiences in the region suggest that imported solutions have not been very cognitive in all aspects of local conditions but international strategies tent to be rather schematic and lacked strategic approaches to promote media policy stability, credible media reform and implementation. The book offers valuable insights into the nature and effects of media assistance and the strategies deployed by international aid agencies, local political forces, media professionals, civil society organizations and other actors.

Author : Michal Mochtak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351846515

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Since the end of the Cold War there have been a number of cases where the democratization process has been turbulent, or even violent. Addressing electoral violence, its evolution and impact in the Western Balkans, this book explores the conflict logic of election and tries to understand its basic patterns. Two decades of electoral competition in the region are analysed to identify an interesting evolution of electoral violence in terms of forms, actors, motivations and dynamics. By identifying the potential drivers of electoral violence and explaining the escalation and stimulus of violence-related events, the author combines a theoretical approach with original data to emphasise the variability of the phenomenon and its evolution in the region. The book will appeal to students and scholars of post-communist Europe and democratisation processes and the Western Balkans in particular. It should also be of interest to political advisors and those involved in developing or implementing democratisation programmes.

Author : Florian Bieber
Publisher :
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9783030221508

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This book explores the stagnation of democracy in the Western Balkans over the last decade. The author maps regional features of rising authoritarianism that mirror larger global trends and, in doing so, outlines the core mechanisms of authoritarian rule in the Balkans, with a particular focus on Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. These mechanisms include the creation of constant crises, the use of external powers to balance outside influences, as well as state capture. The authoritarian patterns exist alongside formal democratic institutions, resulting in competitive authoritarian regimes that use social polarization to retain power. As the countries of the Western Balkans aspire, at least formally, to join the European Union, authoritarianism is often informal. Florian Bieber is Professor for Southeast European History and Politics and Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. He coordinates the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) and has been a visiting professor and fellow at Cornell, NYU, Central European University, and LSE.--

Author : Marko Kmezic
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 9783034311526

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This volume allows a new generation of scholars, from the Balkans and beyond, to shed light on some of the struggles the region faces. The combination of post-communist and post-conflict transition, together with the current economic and financial crisis, pose difficult challenges for the Western Balkans. What is the state of democracy in the region? Are the countries of the Western Balkans stuck somewhere between authoritarianism and genuine democracy? What are the remaining obstacles to state building? What effect has the crisis had on young people in the Western Balkans? These are some of the questions the authors of this volume seek to answer. The studies look at different countries and combine methods from various disciplines ranging from political science, history, economics and law to sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.

Author : Florian Bieber
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 9780367197995

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Introduction: The influence of external actors in the Western Balkans / Florian Bieber and Nikolaos Tzifakis -- Security co-operation in the Western Balkans : cracks and erosion of Euro-Atlantic integration? / Tobias Flessenkemper and Marko Kmezic -- The economic development of the Western Balkans : the importance of non-EU actors / Matteo Bonomi and Milica Uvalic -- Serbia : looking East, going West? / Florent Marciacq -- Bosnia and Herzegovina : abandoned by the West, embraced by the East? / Adnan Huskic -- Kosovo : between western and non-western states / Gëzim Visoka -- Macedonia : a fertile ground for external influences / Zoran Nechev and Ivan Nikolovski -- Montenegro : always at a crossroads / Jovana Marovic -- Albania : new geopolitics and shifting linkages / Enika Abazi -- Russia : playing a weak hand well / Dimitar Bechev -- China : a new geoeconomic approach to the Balkans / Anastas Vangeli -- Turkey : forced marriage or marriage of convenience with the Western Balkans? / Ahmet Erdi Öztürk and Samim Akgönül -- UAE : sultanism meets illiberal democracy / Will Bartlett and Tena Prelec.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
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ISBN : 9264701184

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Government at a Glance: Western Balkans presents information on public governance in the Western Balkan region – covering Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, and compares it to OECD and OECD-EU countries.

Author : Soeren Keil
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : 9780415720731

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By focusing on the connection between Europeanization, state-building and democratization in the Western Balkans, this book demonstrates how the region has undergone complex transformative processes that have resulted in fundamental political, economic and social changes. This book was published as a special issue of Nationalities Papers.