South-Eastern Europe: The expanding EU role

European Union Foreign and Security Policy: Towards a Neighbourhood Strategy

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 62-78

  Greco, Ettore ^a  

^a Istituto Affari Internazionali   (Italy)

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EID: 19644369130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203300855     Document Type: Chapter

References (9)

1. For a comprehensive analysis of the EU's role on the international scene, see R. Balfour and E. Greco, Il ruolo internazionale dell'Unione Europea, Gaeta:Artistic and Publishing Company, 2002 (English version, 2003, forthcoming).
2. On this aspect, see S. Everts, Shaping a Credible EU Foreign Policy, London:Centre for European Reform, 2001.
3. The importance of South-Eastern Europe as a testing ground for the transatlantic relationship was recently emphasised by M. Abramovic and H. Hurlburt, 'Can the EU Hack the Balkans?', Foreign Affairs, September/October 2002, vol. 81, no. 5: 2-7.
4. For an overall assessment of the EU's stabilization and association strategy, see W. van Meurs and A. Yannis, 'The European Union and the Balkans: From Stabilisation Process to Southeastern Enlargement', joint paper by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung und Centrum für angewandte Politikforschung (CAP), September 2002.
5. For recent analyses of the final status question, see J. Bugajski, R. B. Hitchen and P. Williams, Achieving a Final Status Settlement for Kosovo, Washington, DC: CSIS, April 2003;
6. The persistent risks of new conflicts in Macedonia are examined by R. Stefanova, 'New Security Challenges in the Balkans', Security Dialogue, 2003, vol. 34, no. 2: 165-78.
7. See International Crisis Group, Albania: State of the Nation 2003, Tirana and Brussels: ICG, March 2003.
8. See General Affairs Council Conclusions, 29-30 April 1997.
9. For an in-depth analysis of the problems of the EU conditionality, see O. Anastasakis and D. Bechev, EU Conditionality in South-East Europe: Bringing Commitment to the Process, a report by the South East Europe Studies Programme, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, April 2003.