The EU’s raison d’état in the Western Balkans: Can the new enlargement methodology help?
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By employing the concept of raison d’état, the article questions the European Union’s role in the so-called Western Balkan region. While the region continues to be covered by the EU’s enlargement policy, we argue that the policy has been in paralysis. We explore whether the heightened geopolitical tensions in Europe have brought the EU to a turning point at which it would use its enlargement policy decisively to pursue its strategic interests in the region. We start with a theoretical discussion of raison d’état and its instrumentalization in the context of the European Union as a non-state actor. Then, we use the conceptual benchmarks of the raison d’état to analyze its empirical implementation through the EU’s relations with Western Balkan countries. We explore the EU’s available enlargement policy tools and the diverging positions within the EU towards enlargement. We pay special attention to the “New enlargement methodology” devised by the Commission in 2019. We argue that despite ...the Commission’s efforts to promote the EU’s common interest in the region framed in a geopolitical narrative, the diverging national interests still preclude the EU from aggregating its own and pursuing its raison d’état towards the region. The “new methodology” does nothing to overcome this situation. What is more, by insisting on a “stronger political steer” and by further facilitating the reversal of the accession process, the document pushes the Union further away from a common ground regarding the enlargement.
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Raison d’etat / Western Balkans / EU Enlargement / Geopolitics / European perspective / New enlargement methodologyИзвор:
Međunarodni problemi, 2022, LXXIV, 3, 391-410Издавач:
- Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu : Beograd
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FPNTY - JOUR AU - Domaradzki, Spasimir AU - Radić-Milosavljević, Ivana PY - 2022 UR - http://rfpn.fpn.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/991 AB - By employing the concept of raison d’état, the article questions the European Union’s role in the so-called Western Balkan region. While the region continues to be covered by the EU’s enlargement policy, we argue that the policy has been in paralysis. We explore whether the heightened geopolitical tensions in Europe have brought the EU to a turning point at which it would use its enlargement policy decisively to pursue its strategic interests in the region. We start with a theoretical discussion of raison d’état and its instrumentalization in the context of the European Union as a non-state actor. Then, we use the conceptual benchmarks of the raison d’état to analyze its empirical implementation through the EU’s relations with Western Balkan countries. We explore the EU’s available enlargement policy tools and the diverging positions within the EU towards enlargement. We pay special attention to the “New enlargement methodology” devised by the Commission in 2019. We argue that despite the Commission’s efforts to promote the EU’s common interest in the region framed in a geopolitical narrative, the diverging national interests still preclude the EU from aggregating its own and pursuing its raison d’état towards the region. The “new methodology” does nothing to overcome this situation. What is more, by insisting on a “stronger political steer” and by further facilitating the reversal of the accession process, the document pushes the Union further away from a common ground regarding the enlargement. PB - Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu : Beograd T2 - Međunarodni problemi T1 - The EU’s raison d’état in the Western Balkans: Can the new enlargement methodology help? EP - 410 IS - 3 SP - 391 VL - LXXIV DO - 10.2298/MEDJP2203391R ER -
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Domaradzki, S.,& Radić-Milosavljević, I.. (2022). The EU’s raison d’état in the Western Balkans: Can the new enlargement methodology help?. in Međunarodni problemi Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu : Beograd., LXXIV(3), 391-410. https://doi.org/10.2298/MEDJP2203391R
Domaradzki S, Radić-Milosavljević I. The EU’s raison d’état in the Western Balkans: Can the new enlargement methodology help?. in Međunarodni problemi. 2022;LXXIV(3):391-410. doi:10.2298/MEDJP2203391R .
Domaradzki, Spasimir, Radić-Milosavljević, Ivana, "The EU’s raison d’état in the Western Balkans: Can the new enlargement methodology help?" in Međunarodni problemi, LXXIV, no. 3 (2022):391-410, https://doi.org/10.2298/MEDJP2203391R . .