{"product_id":"the-european-unions-approach-to-laurence-cooley-9781138487192","title":"The European Union's Approach to Conflict Resolution: Transformation or Regulation in the Western Balkans?","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates and explains the European Union's approach to conflict resolution in three countries of the Western Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo. In doing so, it critically interrogates claims that the EU acts as an agent of conflict transformation in its engagement with conflict-affected states. The book argues, contrary to the assumptions of much of the existing literature, that rather than seeking the transformation of conflicts, the EU pursues a more conservative strategy based on the regulation of conflict through the promotion of institutional mechanisms such as consociational power sharing and decentralisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on discourse analysis of documents, speeches, and interviews conducted by the author with European Union officials and policy-makers in Brussels and the case-study countries, the book offers a theoretically grounded, methodologically rigorous and empirically detailed analysis of EU policy preferences, of the ideas that underpin them, and of how those preferences are legitimised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested in ethnic conflict and conflict resolution, the politics of the Balkans, and the external and foreign policies of the EU.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurence Cooley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138487198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138487192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Laurence Cooley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48087735992575,"sku":"9781138487192","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c00692de-0e29-42ca-9350-c33a659f7d9e.jpg?v=1769101111","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-european-unions-approach-to-laurence-cooley-9781138487192","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}