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EU Justice and Home Affairs Strategy in the Western Balkans: Conflicting Objectives in the Pre-Accession Strategy. CEPS Working Document, No. 259, 15 February 2007 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
[From the Introduction]. The states of the Western Balkans constitute a major source of ‘soft security’ threats to the EU. The EU attaches a great deal of importance to this subject, as reflected by the fact that justice and home affairs is officially ...
Trauner, Florian.
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The Eu Enlargement. How to be Like the Irish and not the Greek?

open access: yesECONOMICS, 2019
Apart from the former EFTA members (Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) and a few former republics of the Soviet Union (Bjelorussia, Moldova and Ukraina) the countries of the Western Balkans are the only European states outside of the European
Mahmutefendic Tahir
doaj   +1 more source

The Berlin Process: Prospects and Deliverables

open access: yesAICEI Proceedings, 2018
This paper considers the issues of the deliverables. The prospects for satisfying the accession requirements are part of the review. This analysis of the ongoing process should provide encouragement to those who see a promising future for the current ...
Jeremy Cripps
doaj   +1 more source

Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

EU's engagement with the western Balkans: Focus on the EU's new trade policy

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter analyzes the EU’s economic and trade relations with the Western Balkans and discusses the declining interest of the EU in the Western Balkans in the last decade and the reasons behind it. Moreover, it demonstrates the volume of the actual EU-
Topçu, Emel   +2 more
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THE BALKANS – BETWEEN EUROPE AND RUSSIA [PDF]

open access: yesRomanian Journal of Historical Studies, 2021
The article makes an analysis on evolutions in the Balkans, the impact of the crisis in Ukraine and Russia’s actions for the security, stability and development of the Balkan region; escalating tensions and competition among Russia and West to gain ...
Paraschiva Bădescu
doaj  

Prioritizing areas for wolf management in Austria by modelling potential habitat and depredation risk

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
The recovery of wolf populations across Europe has reignited human–wildlife conflicts, particularly in countries such as Austria, where wolves have been absent for more than a century. Livestock depredation remains one of the primary sources of tension, and effective management requires a solid spatial basis for planning.
Florian Kunz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE REFUGEE CRISIS AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE STABILITY OF POST-CONFLICT TRANSIT COUNTRIES IN THE WESTERN BALKANS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The 2011 Arab Spring has created a serious migration and humanitarian crisis. Asylum seekers began attempting to reach Europe through various routes due to brutal conflict in their home countries. This influx has affected countries on the periphery of
ESKEW, ERIN
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ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF PERCEIVED CORRUPTION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH USING THE GLS MODEL

open access: yesActa Economica
Researchers not only dissent on what effect corruption has on economic growth but also whether this effect holds in different institutional contexts. Some economists argue that corruption can stimulate economic growth in environments with poor governance
Vasko Kelić   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

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