@article{1445227, author = {Zoppi, Marco,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1445227}, title = {Futures of the Western Balkans: fragmentation and integration in the region and beyond /}, publisher = {Springer,}, abstract = {This Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region. Taking a two-pronged conceptual approach focusing on fragmentation and integration, the volume highlights commonalities and differences in a number of simultaneous dynamics currently characterizing the region: Europeanization and EU access, market integration, and migration and socio-demographic transformations. Stressing the interconnectedness of these issues, the volume synthesizes key questions for the future of the region, such as the relationship between socio-demographic trends and economic development, the effects of depopulation on further EU integration, and the economic and political repercussions of enhanced intra-regional trade. Explicitly interdisciplinary, this Brief will be useful for researchers and students specializing in the Balkans and Western Balkans, post-socialist countries, European affairs, enlargement, foreign policy, international relations, regional studies, economics, economic transition, and socio-demographics.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89628-7}, recid = {1445227}, pages = {1 online resource.}, address = {Cham, Switzerland :}, year = {2022}, }