Futures of the Western Balkans: fragmentation and integration in the region and beyond / Marco Zoppi.
Zoppi, Marco, 1988-
2022
DR48.62
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Title Futures of the Western Balkans: fragmentation and integration in the region and beyond / Marco Zoppi.
Author Zoppi, Marco, 1988-
ISBN 9783030896287 (electronic bk.)
3030896285 (electronic bk.)
3030896277
9783030896270
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89628-7
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-89628-7 doi
Call Number DR48.62
Dewey Decimal Classification 949.605
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 30, 2022).
Series SpringerBriefs in political science.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030896270
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Intro
Preface
Introduction
The European Space: Mending Old Rips While Facing New Divisions
From the Great Recession to the Global Pandemic
A Variety of Tensions in the Western Balkans
Between Fragmentation and Integration: "Intragmentation" as a Method
Aims and Structure of the Book
References
Contents
Chapter 1: Regional Geopolitics: EU Integration Perspectives, Nationalistic Revivals, and External Actors
EU Enlargement and the Europeanization Process in the Western Balkans
The Geopolitical Awakening of the Western Balkans: The Balkan Route

Non-EU Actors in the Western Balkans: An Assessment
Reconciliation and Ethno-Nationalism
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Embedding the Regional Market?
Economies in Transition
The Regional Economic Outlook
International Competitiveness and Attractiveness
Intra-regional Trade
The Open Balkan Proposal
Open Balkan: Initial Reactions Across the Region
The Significance of Open Balkan
The Core-Periphery Model of Analysis: Still Valid for the Future?
Non-EU Actors and the Challenges to EU Convergence
Conclusion

Chapter 3: Socio-demographic Challenges: Migration and Territorial Impacts
When Data Are Political: Preliminary Considerations on the WB6's Statistical "Black Hole"
Overview of Demographic Features
Territorial Perspectives
Internal Migration
Regional and International Migration
Irregular Migration and the Participation of WB6 Citizens in the Balkan Route
Inequality, Corruption, and Protest
Conclusion
Conclusions
References

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