This volume casts a fresh look on how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process. The contributors argue that EU conditionality in the Western Balkans does not work 'effectively' in terms of social change because rule transfer remains a 'contested' business, due to veto-players on the ground and strong legacies of the past. The volume examines specific policy areas, salient in the enlargement process and to a different degree incorporated in the accession criteria, as well as EU foreign policy in the spheres of post-conflict stabilisation, democratization and the rule of law promotion. Jelena Dzankic is Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (EUI), Italy. Soeren Keil is Reader in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent, UK. Marko Kmezic is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria.

Autorentext
Jelena Danki is Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (EUI), Italy.
****Soeren Keil is Reader in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent, UK. 
****Marko Kmezi is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria.

Inhalt
Chapter 1Introduction: The Europeanisation of the Western BalkansJelena Danki, Soeren Keil and Marko Kmezi
Chapter 2European Union Conditionality in the Western Balkans: External Incentives and EuropeanisationAsya Zhelyazkova, Ivan Damjanovski, Zoran Nechev and Frank Schimmelfennig
Chapter 3Chips off the old block - Europeanisation of the Foreign Policies of Western Balkan statesAna Bojinovi Fenko and Bernhard Stahl
Chapter 4EU Enlargement and State Capture in the Western BalkansMilada Anna Vachudova
Chapter 5EU Rule of Law Conditionality: Democracy or 'Stabilitocracy' Promotion in the Western Balkans?Marko Kmezi
Chapter 6The Europeanisation of Minority Policies in the Western BalkansSimonida Kacarska
Chapter 7Ethnicisation vs. Europeanisation: Promoting Good Governance in Divided StatesCvete Koneska
Chapter 8Tolerating Semi-Authoritarianism? Contextualising the EU's Relationship with Serbia and KosovoBranislav Radelji
Chapter 9The Europeanisation of Contested States - Comparing Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and MontenegroJelena Danki and Soeren Keil
Chapter 10Economic integration of the Western Balkans into the European Union: The role of EU policiesMilica Uvali
Chapter 11Conclusion: Rethinking EuropeanisationFlorian Bieber