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Credible commitment or incredible demands? EU conditionality in the Western Balkans
Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология. 2019. Vol. 13. No. 1. P. 15–23.
Rudneva T.
Александрова А. К., Славяноведение 2025 № 3 С. 77–92
Greece was the first Balkan state to join the European integration project. At the beginning of the 21st century Greece was a locomotive of European integration for the other countries of the region and built the corresponding foreign policy ties with them. However, Greece’s efforts to promote the Balkan states to the European Union were ...
Added: February 11, 2026
Entina E., Россия в глобальной политике 2025 Т. 23 № 6 С. 138–149
Events in Serbia and the transformation of political objectives ...
Added: November 6, 2025
Ustyuzhanin V., Fain E., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series PS "Political Science". 2025. No. 1.
This article aims to shed light on the economic consequences of the nonviolent campaigns (NVCs) across the world. The current era is shaped with various political transformations that are often driven by political movements that engage in NVCs. Some of them are successful and result in regime change while others fail and are unable to ...
Added: September 12, 2025
Islamov D.R., Вопросы национальных и федеративных отношений 2023 Vol. 13 No. 3 (96) P. 1222–1228
Under the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the Western Balkans’ direction in Turkey’s foreign policy took on a peculiar significance. However, from the 1990s to the mid-2000s, Turkey kept on contributing to NATO's missions and operations supporting Muslims during the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia and being eager to play an active role in ...
Added: September 7, 2024
Royce D. P., Russia in Global Affairs 2024 Vol. 22 No. 22(3) P. 46–70
The Ukraine crisis, erupting partially in 2014 and fully in 2022, was actually set in motion decades before then. Largely on the basis of declassified and leaked State Department cables and other US government documents, this article traces US policy on Ukrainian membership in NATO. Inter alia, the article reveals that, by 14 October 1994, the US had adopted ...
Added: April 24, 2024
Gupta P., Roy Chowdhury A., Journal of Forest Economics 2024 Vol. 39 No. 1 P. 39–75
Sustained advocacy by the indigenous people and a coalition of civil society organizations led the government to pass the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 (FRA) in India. But the Act failed to democratize forest governance as its implementation failed, and subsequent dilutions resulted in its unmaking. Using primary data ...
Added: April 16, 2024
Trenin D., Russia Today 2023
Expanding the membership and working towards financial independence from the West are two important challenges to be discussed at the Johannesburg summit ...
Added: November 16, 2023
Pivovarenko A., Евсеев В. В., Гаджиев А. Г., Геоэкономика энергетики 2021 № 4 С. 70–95
The authors of the article examine Turkey’s foreign policy strategies, the current features of its policy, and Ankara’s policy in the Balkans. This analysis is carried out from the angle of Russian-Turkish relations. According to the authors the actual conceptual basis of the Turkish foreign policy strategy is in the stage of yet another transformation. ...
Added: October 11, 2023
Proroković D., Entina E., International Organisations Research Journal 2023 Vol. 18 No. 2 P. 106–121
With the Western Balkans’ European integration completely stalled and its future uncertain, a new regional initiative was launched by Albania, Serbia and North Macedonia. Initially called Mini Schengen, it grew into the Open Balkan Initiative with an ambitious goal to form a single market with unhindered movement of people, goods, services, and capital. Despite active involvement ...
Added: July 29, 2023
Entina E., Животич А., Международная аналитика 2023 Т. 14 № 1 С. 123–137
Санкционная проблематика, приобрется новое измерение в конце XX - начале XXI вв., выразившееся в рутинном применении односторонних ограничительных мер, из сугубо международно-правовой отрасли науки переросла в междисциплинарную и стала предметом политологических, социологических и прочих исследований. Кейс Югославии как один из первых примеров применения санкций в целях корректировки не только международных действий, но и политического режима, ...
Added: April 14, 2023
Dabrowski M., Intereconomics 2022 Vol. 57 No. 4 P. 209–212
It is not the first time in EU history that the enlargement perspective is confronted with the need for integration deepening. ...
Added: November 29, 2022
Entina E., Entin M., Voynikov V. V., Baltic region 2022 Vol. 14 No. 1 P. 122–137
The Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021—2027 was adopted during the severe crisis caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In the face of a rapidly deteriorating economic situation, EU countries took unprecedented steps radically changing the principles of resource allocation in the Union. These included the recovery plan for Europe, making the EU budget conditional on ...
Added: May 12, 2022
Turobov A., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Философия. Социология. Политология 2022 № 65 С. 310–327
The study aims to analyze the network structure of trade relations in 38 countries and is based on data from the World Trade Organization. The popular concept of digitalization drives the focus of the study on technology trade. Comparative logic is implemented by analyzing networks for two time periods: 2013 and 2019. The analysis of ...
Added: April 11, 2022
Pivovarenko A., Entina E., Politicka Misao 2019 Vol. 56 No. 3-4 P. 179–199
The article reflects on the issue of the foreign policy strategy of modern Russia in the Balkans region. One of the most significant aspects of this problem is the difference in views between Russia and the West. Authors show how different interpretations of the events in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and the beginning of ...
Added: November 18, 2021
Korotayev A., Sawyer P., Romanov D., Comparative Sociology 2021 Vol. 20 No. 2 P. 195–222
The current article investigates societal indicators associated with economic development that may account for the strong positive correlation between GDP per capita and protest intensity. The authors’ tests reveal that the expansion of democratization, education, and urbanization are one of the main influences accounting for this positive relationship between GDP per capita growth and anti-government protest intensity. Moreover, when ...
Added: July 2, 2021
Korotayev A., Sawyer P., Grinin L. E. et al., Социологический журнал 2020 Т. 26 № 4 С. 61–78
Previous studies have revealed a somewhat paradoxical strong positive correlation between per capita GDP and the intensity of anti-government demonstrations observed for the vast majority of countries (indeed, it turns out that the better people live, the more likely they are to join anti-government protests). The goal of this article is to identify possible causes ...
Added: January 21, 2021
Sokolov B., Ponarin E., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series SOC "Sociology". 2019. No. 89.
This paper seeks to test if the disillusionment theory developed by Sokolov et al. (2018) to explain the rise of anti-Americanism in post-Soviet Russia, can also explain the recent growth of Euroscepticism in East-Central Europe (ECE). We provide anecdotal evidence of anti-EU disillusionment in the region and then test several empirical implications of the disillusionment ...
Added: October 1, 2020
Baysha O., Cadernos de Linguagem e Sociedade - Papers on Language and Society 2020 Vol. 21 No. 1 P. 21–41
Many CDA scholars assume there is an inherent opposition between democratization with its advances toward social justice and neoliberal marketization with its array of negative consequences. Analyzing the discourse of democratization in the context of contemporary Ukraine, this paper argues that the issue is more complicated. Neoliberal marketization can go hand-in-hand with the discourse of ...
Added: August 4, 2020
Ziegler C., Kazantsev A., Hanks R., University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
The five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan constitute an area of increasing importance in global politics. The region currently serves as the main route for transporting American and NATO supplies and personnel into Afghanistan. Its Turkic Muslim peoples share ethnic and religious roots with China's Uighurs in neighboring Xinjiang, where ...
Added: December 5, 2019
Knutsen C. H., Teorell J., Wig T. et al., Journal of Peace Research 2019 Vol. 56 No. 3 P. 440–451
The Historical Varieties of Democracy dataset (Historical V-Dem) contains about 260 indicators, both factual and
evaluative, describing various aspects of political regimes and state institutions. The dataset covers 91 polities globally – including most large, sovereign states, as well as some semi-sovereign entities and large colonies – from 1789 to 1920 for many cases. The majority ...
Added: July 25, 2019
Rudneva T., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2019 № 2 (93) С. 168–184
По мнению многих экспертов, стремление к вхождению в ЕС сыграло важную роль в европеизации и демократизации стран Центральной и Восточной Европы (ЦВЕ). Согласно модели внешних стимулов, получившей широкое распространение среди исследователей европейской интеграции, успешное усвоение данными странами либерально-демократических норм объяснялось надежной перспективой вступления в ЕС в сочетании с благоприятными внутренними условиями, обеспечивающими низкие издержки проведения ...
Added: June 1, 2019
Makarenko B., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2019 № 1 (92) С. 97–113
The article analyzes results of political development of post-Communist countries. It looks at various indices and quantitative measurements of modernization, democratization and state capacity, such as Bertelsmann Transformation Index, The Economist Democracy index, etc. This analysis allows the author to assert correlation between success of a country in building market economy and democratization on one ...
Added: March 29, 2019