Futures of the Western Balkans: Fragmentation and Integration in the Region and Beyond (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030896270)

This Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region. Taking a two-pronged conceptual approach focusing on fragmentation and integration, the volume highlights commonalities and differences in a number of simultaneous dynamics currently characterizing the region: Europeanization and EU access, market integration, and migration and socio-demographic transformations. Stressing the interconnectedness of these issues, the volume synthesizes key questions for the future of the region, such as the relationship between socio-demographic trends and economic development, the effects of depopulation on further EU integration, and the economic and political repercussions of enhanced intra-regional trade. Explicitly interdisciplinary, this Brief will be useful for researchers and students specializing in the Balkans and Western Balkans, post-socialist countries, European affairs, enlargement, foreign policy, international relations, regional studies, economics, economic transition, and socio-demographics.

Author: Marco Zoppi
ISBN-10: 3030896277
ISBN-13: 9783030896270
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2022
Pages: 83
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.24d