Demokratizacija i europeizacija kao teorijski okviri instrumenta uvjetovanosti u politici proširenja Europske Unije
Democratisation And Europeanisation As A Theoretical Frame Of Condition In The EU Enlargement Policy

Summary/Abstract: European integration in the Western Balkans is the starting point of europeanisation that is closely intertwined with the process of democratisation and democratic consolidation; those two processes are interconnected and conditioned. This paper presents concept of democratisation as wanted political outcome of the EU Enlargement policy and theoretical frame of europeanisation as international dimension of democratisation, i.e. one of the EU external relations’ objectives. as it argued; those processes are inherent from the beginning of the European integration in the Western Balkans that strongly correlated with Stabilisation and association Process (SaP). With its democratic conditionality European Union serves as main impulse and initiative of democratic consolidation determining official benchmarks in fulfilling political (Copenhagen) criteria and encouraging changes on different levels of democratisation process. interdependence of modernisation, statehood development and inf luence of external actors, in a case of resolved nation-building question, increases the consolidation of former real-socialist countries in the Western Balkans.

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