| Description |
1 online resource |
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SpringerBriefs in political science ser |
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SpringerBriefs in political science.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 30, 2022) |
| Subject |
Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000164
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Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93006164
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| Subject |
Balkan Peninsula
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030896287 |
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3030896285 |
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