Challenging Assumptions of the Enlargement Literature: The Impact of the EU on Human and Minority Rights in Macedonia

Maria Koinova

Europe-Asia Studies, 2011, vol. 63, issue 5, 807-832

Abstract: This article argues that from the very start of the transition process in Macedonia, a fusion of concerns about security and democratisation locked local nationalist elites and international organisations intoa political dynamic that prioritised security over democratisation. This dynamic resulted in little progress in the implementation of human and minority rights until 2009, despite heavy EU involvement in Macedonia after the internal warfare of 2001. The effects of this informally institutionalised relationship have been overlooked by scholarship on EU enlargement towards Eastern Europe, which has made generalisations based on assumptions relevant to the democratisation of countries in Eastern Europe, but not the Western Balkans.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2011.576023

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