Foreign Policy Review 2023/01

Foreign Policy Review 2023/01

The Western Balkans in Changing World Dynamics

Conference Volume of the Budapest Balkans Forum 2023

Published by the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs

Publisher: Márton Schőberl
Editor: Ferenc Németh

ISSN 1588-7855 (Print)
ISSN 2064-9428 (Online)

 

Contents

EU ACCESSION OF THE WESTERN BALKANS

Ivica Bocevski: European Integration and the Western Balkans – What Now?

Johannes Swoboda: Challenges for EU accession and the war against Ukraine

Dragan Tilev: The phasing-in approach for accelerated integration into the European Union, or encapsulation into the Western Balkans

Jasmin Hasić: The EU’s Enlargement Strategy at a Crossroads? Redirecting the Debate Toward Acquisition-based Integrative Models

Ferenc Németh: European Political Community: A New Strategic Framework on the Horizon?

 

EUROPEAN AND REGIONAL RESPONSES TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES

Margit Wunsch Gaarmann: Countering Geopolitical Competition in the Western Balkans: the EU, Russia, and China

Sergiu Mitrescu: Energy Diplomacy in the Western Balkans

Gubad Ibadoghlu – Ibad Bayramov: An Assessment of the potential of EU-Azerbaijan energy cooperation and its impact on EU gas dependence on Russia

Julianna Ármás: Lost generations losing generation: the consequences of the demographic crisis in the Western Balkans

 

COUNTRY STUDIES

Nina Sajić: Culture of dependency and federal spirit in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Anna Orosz: High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina: is the more interventionist way the right way to go?

Naoum Kaytchev: Perspectives for North Macedonia’s EU integration after the French EU framework solution in 2022

Ognen Vangelov: The French Proposal: A Turning Point in the Balkans or a Dead End?

Heinrich Kreft: The Franco-German proposal to normalise relations between Serbia and Kosovo. A historic opportunity to unblock the EU accession perspective for the entire Western Balkans

 

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