The Analysis Of EU’s The Western Balkan Enlargement

Yıl 2018, Cilt: 4 Sayı: 1-2, 46 - 65, 28.12.2018

Caner Övsan Çakaş

Öz

Enlargement of the European Union is one of most
important development not only in European politics but also in the world
politics in general. The European Union had accepted ten thirteen new new
members from 2004 to 2013 and these new members were mainly consist of Eastern
European and Balkan countries (only Malta and Cyprus were exceptions). In this
context, the enlargement of the Union to Western Balkans is very important
issue which had to be taken into consideration. In this article It is aimed to
elaborate the achievements and failures of the EU enlargement strategies in the
three Western Balkan countries. It will be analyzed that whether could it be
accepted that there is a comprehensive enlargement strategy of EU for Western
Balkan countries and why EU enlargement process was culminated in achievement
in some countries such as Croatia and Slovenia, but it failed in another
countries such as Serbia in the first decade of 21.century. This question will
be assessed in line with the two fundamental theories of regional integration
namely, rationalist institutionalism and sociological institutionalism. In the
research study, it reached that sociological institutionalism provides more
appropriate perspective for the purpose of explaining the different results of
enlargement strategy in the Balkan countries.o

Anahtar Kelimeler

EU Enlargement Process, Western Balkans, Rationalist Institutionalism, Sociological Institutionalism

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