Europeanization by Rule of Law Implementation in the Western Balkans

Kmezic, Marko; Kadribasic, Adnan; Misev, Vladimir; Bibezic, Adaleta; Kmezić, Sanja; Ilievski, Zoran

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2437800

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“…Conditions were defined in various documents produced by the EU to monitor the progress of BiH, but seemed to be neither coherent, nor comprehensive. I illustrate this fact with a research matrix which was developed for a paper entitled Europeanization by Rule of Law Implementation in the Western Balkans (Kmezić et al, 2014).…”

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Human Rights Conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Limited Progress to Limited Impact

Kadribasic¹

2017

Intersections

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This paper analyses the effectiveness of EU conditionality in the area of human rights with a focus on non-discrimination in terms of its characteristics, particularities, and difficulties in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From the analysis of two case studies, this paper finds evidence that the effectiveness of human rights conditionality largely depends on the determinacy of conditions, the size and speed of rewards, the credibility of threats and promises, and the size of adoption costs. It also finds evidence of the impact socialization plays as an alternative and supportive model of rule transfer. These findings could support future EU conditionality policy towards Bosnia and Herzegovina which entered its most intensive phase following the entry into force of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement on June 1, 2015, and the presentation of the EU Questionnaire in December 2016.

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Human Rights Conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Limited Progress to Limited Impact

Kadribasic¹

2017

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“…The Commission has been criticised for managing enlargement as an elite-driven process: low involvement of civil society and parliaments from candidate states undermines the positive effect of the EU's democracy and rule of law assistance (Chandler 2010; Balkans in Europe Advisory Policy Group/BiEPAG 2014). Many experts argue that the Commission's suggestions for conducting democratic reforms are arbitrary and lack uniformity, while conditionality is not applied in a consistent manner (Kochenov 2004;Piana 2009;De Ridder and Kochenov 2011;Kmezic 2014). 8 Conducting enlargement negotiations in the same old manner exacerbates "enlargement fatigue" in the candidate states, while the perceived lack of legitimacy by the candidate states leads to fake and partial compliance with EU demands (Noutcheva 2009(Noutcheva , 2012.…”

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The EU and rule of law promotion in Western Balkans – a new role for candidate states’ parliaments

Strelkov

2016

East European Politics

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The article explores the recent shift in the European Union's approach towards candidate states in the Western Balkans. 1 It argues that the European Commission has started to pay greater attention to parliaments in candidate states in order to promote and secure accession-related reforms. As a result, national parliaments in candidate states have greater opportunities to shape the content of these reforms, including those in the rule of law sector. Consequently, the article elaborates on the factors that could potentially affect Balkan parliaments' involvement in the accession process.

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“…Following empirical evidence, some scholars in recent years raised the question whether the formal transposition of EU rules also leads to their institutionalization, or alternatively, whether the imported rules tend to remain "empty shells" (e.g. Kmezić, 2014). Dimitrova stresses that studies dealing with the issue of Europeanisation through the implementation of the EU rules focus mostly on the formal transposition of EU rules into domestic legislation, but tend not to deal with actual effects of these rules "on the ground", i.e., whether if and how these rules function (if at all) in people's everyday life.…”

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confidence: 99%