Europeanizing Montenegro : The European Union, the Rule of Law,
and Regional Cooperation

VUČKOVIĆ, Vladimir. Europeanizing Montenegro : The European Union, the Rule of Law, and Regional Cooperation. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021, 267 pp. ISBN 978-1-7936-0775-1.

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AU  - Vučković, Vladimir
PY  - 2021
TI  - Europeanizing Montenegro : The European Union, the Rule of Law, and Regional Cooperation
VL  - Neuveden
PB  - Lexington Books
CY  - Lanham
SN  - 9781793607751
KW  - Europeanisation
KW  - Montenegro
KW  - Judicial Reform
KW  - Fight against Corruption
KW  - International Cooperation
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N2  - The volume aims to examine Europeanization of Montenegro, a regional frontrunner among all Western Balkans in the EU integration process, through EU impact on domestic governmental changes by focusing on three political membership conditions of the EU: judicial reform, fight against the corruption, and development of regional cooperation and good neighbourly relations. This book is based on the argument of the EU transformative power having produced negatively reinforcing effects in key accession criteria in the candidate country within the ten years of integration period. The given deficiency of fulfilment of political conditions in Montenegro is, on the one hand, primarily the result of an inconsistent and inefficient EU conditional policy, and unfavourable domestic factors to appropriately conduct reform activities, thus resulting in generally weak and mitigating reform progress. In addition, the book has claimed that the effective adoption and alignment with the EU accession demands does not solely depend on interdependency of the EU and domestic factors (as it was explained by the Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier theory of Europeanization), but rather it also substantially depends on influence of other international factors, namely the influence of Russia and China in the Western Balkan region. The state’s possibility to choose the policies of alternatives instead of opportunities i.e. to cooperate with other international factors which do not question political legitimacy of the domestic ruling elites nor do they interfere into internal political affairs, has significantly affected reduction of euphoria for the advance in the EU accession process with the domestic political leaders. The current EU foreign policy in the form of the enlargement process more likely contains characteristics of charade in the process of European integration of Montenegro. This particular point may be witnessed not only when the case of Montenegro is taken into consideration, but also when the rest of the Balkans is, in terms of the EU enlargement policy that is, analysed.
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Basic information
Original name	Europeanizing Montenegro : The European Union, the Rule of Law, and Regional Cooperation
Authors	VUČKOVIĆ, Vladimir (499 Montenegro, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition	Lanham, 267 pp. 2021.
Publisher	Lexington Books

Other information
Original language	English
Type of outcome	Book on a specialized topic
Field of Study	50601 Political science
Country of publisher	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree	is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form	printed version "print"
WWW	URL
RIV identification code	RIV/00216224:14230/21:00122722
Organization unit	Faculty of Social Studies
ISBN	978-1-7936-0775-1
Keywords in English	Europeanisation; Montenegro; Judicial Reform; Fight against Corruption; International Cooperation
Tags	rivok
Tags	International impact, Reviewed
Changed by	Changed by: Mgr. Vladimir Vučković, Ph.D., učo 436281. Changed: 1/9/2023 10:26.

Abstract

The volume aims to examine Europeanization of Montenegro, a regional frontrunner among all Western Balkans in the EU integration process, through EU impact on domestic governmental changes by focusing on three political membership conditions of the EU: judicial reform, fight against the corruption, and development of regional cooperation and good neighbourly relations. This book is based on the argument of the EU transformative power having produced negatively reinforcing effects in key accession criteria in the candidate country within the ten years of integration period. The given deficiency of fulfilment of political conditions in Montenegro is, on the one hand, primarily the result of an inconsistent and inefficient EU conditional policy, and unfavourable domestic factors to appropriately conduct reform activities, thus resulting in generally weak and mitigating reform progress. In addition, the book has claimed that the effective adoption and alignment with the EU accession demands does not solely depend on interdependency of the EU and domestic factors (as it was explained by the Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier theory of Europeanization), but rather it also substantially depends on influence of other international factors, namely the influence of Russia and China in the Western Balkan region. The state’s possibility to choose the policies of alternatives instead of opportunities i.e. to cooperate with other international factors which do not question political legitimacy of the domestic ruling elites nor do they interfere into internal political affairs, has significantly affected reduction of euphoria for the advance in the EU accession process with the domestic political leaders. The current EU foreign policy in the form of the enlargement process more likely contains characteristics of charade in the process of European integration of Montenegro. This particular point may be witnessed not only when the case of Montenegro is taken into consideration, but also when the rest of the Balkans is, in terms of the EU enlargement policy that is, analysed.

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