Integrating the Western Balkans Into the EU: Overcoming Mutual Misperceptions (Paperback, 2023)

Chapter 1:?The perceptions of European Union - Western Balkan integration prospects. Introduction and overview.- Part I:?Perceptions From the West.- Chapter 2:?The drivers of EU financial assistance to the Western Balkans: economic, altruistic or democracy promotion motives?.- Chapter 3:?Moving the Western Balkans towards the European Union: The daunting case of Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Chapter 4:?Yugoslav partition and post-war EU integration: the role of Italy, 1990-2022.- Chapter 5:?The Western Balkans, a German view.- Chapter 6:?Imagining Europe in a new and small state: the case of Croatia.- Chapter 7:?The United States in the Western Balkans: reluctant, late and distant involvement vs. quick radical fix.- Part II: Regional Perceptions.- Chapter 8:?The image of the European Union in the Western Balkans.- Chapter 9:?Perceptions and misperceptions of EU conditionality in the Western Balkans: a case of a "capability-expectations gap"?.- Chapter 10:?European Union - Western Balkan misperceptions and paradoxes.- Chapter 11:?Perceptions of regional cooperation in the Western Balkans.- Chapter 12:?The foggy future of the Balkans: in or out of the European Union?.- Part III:?Perceptions in Individual Countries.- Chapter 13:?European Union and the Western Balkans, an endless story. The case of Albania.- Chapter 14:?The role of mis-coordinated European integration mechanisms in decelerating progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina's EU accession.- Chapter 15:?Pro-EU, no matter what: European Union (mis)perceptions in Kosovo.- Chapter 16:?The perception of the EU and its policies: a view from Montenegro.- Chapter 17:?Reinforcing or conflicting? EU conditionality and political socialization during the 2015-2017 political crisis in the Republic of North Macedonia.- Chapter 18:?Love and hate relationship: media framing of the official political communication about the EU in Serbia'smedia.- Chapter 19:?Bridging the perceptions-based gap between the European Union and the Western Balkan.