Balkan countries typically share remarkable similarities in culture and history. However, this
specific region received little academic attention and produced fewer scholarly deals with …

The EU adopted a new enlargement strategy for the Western Balkans countries in 2018,
provided a time frame for Serbia and Montenegro potentially to join the Union by 2025, and …

Despite the enormous inflow of international assistance to the Western Balkans over the last
25 years, the intended state-building efforts have only had partial success and great …

ABSTRACT The European Union has been praised for successfully promoting democracy
through its political accession conditionality by incentivizing Central and Eastern European …

This paper examines how values and professional socialization in business schools impact
the formulation of students' contextualized view of social responsibility. We propose the …

This article investigates the effects of the political connectedness on the business
performance of private sector firms in South East Europe. This question is relevant to …

This article considers how the European People's Party (EPP) responded to democratic
backsliding in Serbia that unfolded under the leadership of its affiliate, the Serbian …

This article takes stock of research on political participation and civic engagement in
Albania, a country generally perceived as lacking a civil society and a democratic political …

This chapter argues that in some of the successor states of former Yugoslavia an economic
system of political capitalism has replaced the former economic system of socialist self …

This paper deals with the sluggish Europeanisation efforts of the current political elites of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. A typical explanation for the lack of progress would be the …