European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession: Conditionality, legitimacy and compliance

European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession analyses the EU's influence in the Balkans. It studies the compliance responses of the Balkan countries to the EU's pre-accession conditions, and how these responses have been affected by domestic views of the overall purpose of the EU's policy in the region.The book offers an explanation of how the statehood of a would-be EU member affects the policy and politics of conditionality at the EU level and the politics of compliance at domestic level.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of EU politics, and those focusing on policy impact in EU integration.