Zeynep Arkan

PART I: Theory of Enlargement and Member State-Building 1. Introduction: The EU and Statebuilding in the Western Balkans, Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan 2. The Limits of Normative Power? EU Member State-Building in the Western Balkans, Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan 3. Building on Experience? EU Enlargement and the Western Balkans, Erhan Icener and David Phinnemore PART II: Case Studies 4. The Normative Power of the EU in Croatia: Mixed Results, Sanja Badanjak 5. The Role of the EU in the statehood and democratization of Montenegro, Jelena Dzankic 6. The EU in Macedonia: from inter to intra-ethnic political mediator in an accession deadlock, Simonida Kacarska 7. Signaling right and turning left: The response to EU-conditionality in Serbia, Mladen Mladenov and Bernhard Stahl 8. The EU's 'Limited Sovereignty - Strong Control' Approach in the Process of Member State Building in Kosovo, Gezim Krasniqi and Mehmet Musaj 9. Not-So-Great Expectations: The EU and the Constitutional Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valery Perry PART III: Comparative Perspectives 10. The European Union and the Western Balkans: Time to Move away from Retributive Justice?, Olivera Simic 11. The Political Economy of Accession: Forming Economically Viable Member States, Will Bartlett PART IV: Conclusion 12. Theory and Practice of EU Member-State Building in the Western Balkans, Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan

Different ways of conceptualizing and assessing the EU's actorness have been at the centre of discussions on EU foreign policy. This paper, instead of offering a new conception of EU's actorness, aims to offer a new way of analyzing its effectiveness as a foreign policy actor ...

PART I: Theory of Enlargement and Member State-Building 1. Introduction: The EU and Statebuilding in the Western Balkans, Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan 2. The Limits of Normative Power? EU Member State-Building in the Western Balkans, Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan 3. Building on Experience? EU Enlargement and the Western Balkans, Erhan Icener and David Phinnemore PART II: Case Studies 4. The Normative Power of the EU in Croatia: Mixed Results, Sanja Badanjak 5. The Role of the EU in the statehood and democratization of Montenegro, Jelena Dzankic 6. The EU in Macedonia: from inter to intra-ethnic political mediator in an accession deadlock, Simonida Kacarska 7. Signaling right and turning left: The response to EU-conditionality in Serbia, Mladen Mladenov and Bernhard Stahl 8. The EU's 'Limited Sovereignty - Strong Control' Approach in the Process of Member State Building in Kosovo, Gezim Krasniqi and Mehmet Musaj 9. Not-So-Great Expectations: The EU and the Constitutional Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Valery Perry PART III: Comparative Perspectives 10. The European Union and the Western Balkans: Time to Move away from Retributive Justice?, Olivera Simic 11. The Political Economy of Accession: Forming Economically Viable Member States, Will Bartlett PART IV: Conclusion 12. Theory and Practice of EU Member-State Building in the Western Balkans, Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan

Different ways of conceptualizing and assessing the EU's actorness have been at the centre of discussions on EU foreign policy. This paper, instead of offering a new conception of EU's actorness, aims to offer a new way of analyzing its effectiveness as a foreign policy actor ...

This book critically examines the process of statebuilding by the EU, focusing on its attempts to build Member States in the Western Balkan region. This book analyses the European Union's policies towards, and the impact they have, upon the states of the Western Balkans, and assesses how these affect the nature of EU foreign policy. To this end, it focuses on the tools and mechanisms that the EU employs in its enlargement policy and examines the new instruments of direct intervention (in Bosnia and Kosovo), political coercion (in the case of Croatia and Serbia in relation to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), and stricter conditionality in the Western Balkan countries. The book discusses the key aim of this special form of statebuilding, which is to establish functional liberal-democratic states in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia in order for them to join the EU and to cope with the responsibilities...

Öz: Avrupa Birliği, her ne kadar gerçek anlamda 'ortak' bir dış politika oluşturmakta zorlansa da, dış ilişkilerinde oldukça aktif olan ekonomik ve siyasi bir güçtür. Uluslararası sistemde etkin bir aktör olan Birliğin dış ilişkilerine yön veren, Avrupa Birliği'nin kuruluş temellerini oluşturan demokrasi, insan hakları ve temel özgürlüklere saygı, hukukun üstünlüğü, adalet gibi norm ve değerler – ya da kısaca Birliğin normatif kimliği – olarak görülmektedir. Bu makalenin temel amacı, Avrupa Birliği'nin göç politikasını dış ilişkileri çerçevesinde değerlendirmek ve normatif güç kimliğinin son dönemde yaşanan 'göç krizi' ve Birliğin bu 'kriz' döneminde ürettiği politikalardan nasıl etkilendiğini analiz etmektir. Abstract: While developing a truly 'common' foreign policy has proven to be difficult for the European Union, it is a considerably active economic and political power in its external relations. What guide the Union's external relations as an effective actor in the international system are deemed to be the norms and values including democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, the rule of law, justice – in short, the Union's normative identity – that also serve as its very foundations. The key aim of this article is t o assess the European Union's migration policy in the framework of its external relations and to analyse the effects of the recent migration crisis and the Union's policy response to the crisis on the its so-called normative power identity.

In the aftermath of the Cold War, Turkey, once the 'southern bastion of NATO', had to redefine its identity and geopolitical location in relation to not only the West and Europe, but also its neighbours to the East. In this period, the country's aspiration to join the European Union and its position visa -vis Europe proved to be determining factors in its identity transformation process, taking into consideration its traditional Western orientation. By specifically focusing on the last decade, this study analyses how Turkey's decision-makers constituted the identity of the state in relation to a specific conception of Europe. It argues that these decision-makers, through references to the distinctive history and geography of Turkey, reconceptualised the identity of the state in order to transform Turkey into an effective actor in the world and, in doing so, challenged the dominant inclusive, multi-cultural and normative characterisations of the European Union's identity.