Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices: Performing Europe in the Western Balkans (Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding) - Softcover

Musliu, Vjosa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032009713 ISBN 13: 9781032009711

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and statebuilding in the Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday practices.

This volume argues that it is everyday and mundane events that provide the entry points to showcase a broader set of practices of Europeanization in countries outside the EU. It does this by tracing notions of Europeanization in the everyday statebuilding of Kosovo, Europe Day celebrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, urban politics in Tirana, and space and place making in Skopje. In doing so, the book shows that everyday events tell us that as much as it is about changing structures, institutions, and economic models, Europeanization is also about changing behaviours and ideas in populations at large. At the same time, the work shows that countries outside the EU use everyday events to perform their belonging to Europe.

This book will be of much interest to students of European Studies, Balkan politics, statebuilding, and International Relations generally.

About this title

About the Author

Vjosa Musliu is Assistant Professor in the Political Science department at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032009713
• ISBN 13: 9781032009711
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172