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Crises in the Dynamic of the Eighth Round of EU Enlargement: Structural Factors or High Expectations

Student: Fedorenko Nikita

Supervisor: Artem Alikin

Faculty: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Educational Programme: International Relations: European and Asian Studies (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The study analyses the eighth European Union enlargement round concerning the Western Balkans Six (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia) which is affected by serious negative tendencies. In order to formulate why EU policy in the region could be called ‘high expectations’, this paper applies the external incentives model developed within the external governance theory. The external incentives model’s main focus on EU conditionality (the main mechanism of the Europeanisation of the Western Balkans) lets it develop the efficiency criteria of conditionality which represent the factors that are slowing down the WB 6 integration by the EU.

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