The EU and the Balkans: Shifting Meanings after the Crisis

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Abstract

This article discusses to what extent meanings and discourses on ‘EU membership’
on the one hand and on the ‘Balkans’ on the other, have shifted within
Western Balkan countries in the past few years as a result of financial crisis in
the European Union. Focusing on Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the
article uses Derrida’s deconstruction to problematize the return of terms such
as ‘Balkan’ and ‘Balkanized’, as a way to explain failures of the economic
system. The article concludes that in the case of BH and to a lesser extent in
Kosovo, there has been a de-mythicization of the EU.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)32-42
Number of pages10
JournalCroatian Political Science Review
Volume50
Issue number4-5
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Keywords

  • Kosovo
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Derrida
  • Euro-crisis
  • the Balkans

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