EU’s “Laboratory” in the Western Balkans. Experimenting Europeanization without Democratization. The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Iordan Gheorghe Barbulescu; Miruna Troncota

Autores/as

Iordan Gheorghe Barbulescu
Miruna Troncota

Palabras clave:

Bosnia and Herzegovina, democratization, Europeanization, institution building, Western Balkans

Resumen

The article will explore some potential causes of this limited process of Europeanization and its overallimpact on the malfunctioning of Bosnia. After a short conceptual overview inside the Europeanizationliterature and its connection with democratization, the analytical section of the article will focus on theparticular case of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The main question to be tackled is: How democraticis the Europeanization process in Bosnia and who should be held accountable for the outcome afteralmost two decades-long effort? The subsequent analysis will try to bring a potential answer to thisconcern, using the intricate case of the Europeanization of BiH as an illustration for the ambivalent roleof the EU in the Western Balkans (WB) with the scope of pointing out some lessons which were notfully drawn from this process. The main conclusion is that the mixed strategy of EU that induced bothexternal pressure and local ownership under the EU conditionality created institutional blockage and ademocratic deficit

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Biografía del autor/a

Iordan Gheorghe Barbulescu

Iordan Gheorghe Barbulescu is Jean Monnet Professor of European Studies at the NationalSchool for Political Studies and Administration, Chair of the Department of InternationalRelations and European Integration and President of the NSPSA (Bucharest,Romania). He holds a PhD in political sciences and sociology (University of Bucharest).He is President of the Romanian Association of International Relationsand EuropeanStudies and published numerous articles and books about the institutionalmechanismsof the European Union. He is Beneficiary of the project “Restructuring doctoralresearch in the fields of political sciences, public administration, sociology and communication-DOCT”, co-funded by the European Union throughthe European SocialFund, Sectorial Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013.

Miruna Troncota

Miruna Troncota is PhD candidate at the National School for Political Studies and Administration(NSPSA, Bucharest, Romania), with a study on the Problematic Europeanizationof Bosnia and Herzegovina. She graduated the MA program of Political Theory and Analysisat the same university, completing also a study semester at Karl Franzens University(Graz, Austria). She is Beneficiary of the “Doctoral Scholarships for a Sustainable Society”project, co-financed by the European Union through the European Social Fund, SectoralOperational Programme Human Resources and Development 2007-2013.