Europeanization in South East Europe

Danica Fink-Hafner and Damjan Lajh

Chapter 2 in Handbook of Doing Business in South East Europe, 2012, pp 25-50 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract During the last two decades, Europeanization has become an attractive research area and an integral part of the study of European Union (EU) politics. It has become a fashionable and yet contested concept, especially since the turn of the twenty-first century (Olsen, 2003), and as such it has developed many different faces. It can be said that, in the context of the development of the EU as a predominantly Western political community, Europeanization has been defined in many ways, but without any clear boundaries.1 According to Börzel and Risse (2006, pp. 484–485), Europeanization is understood in at least three different ways: (1) it is perceived as a bottom-up process and refers to a somewhat broader understanding of European integration; (2) it is a top-down process by which EU-level institutions and decisions shape and transform the domestic politics, policies and institutions of individual states (both member and non-member states); and (3) it encompasses both of the above-mentioned definitions, being conceived as a combination of a bottom-up and a top-down process.

Keywords: European Union; Organize Crime; Western Balkan Country; European Union Membership; European Neighbourhood Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230314146_2

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