European Integration and its Effects on Minority Protection in the Western Balkan Countries

"This publication provides a comparative and up-to-date analysis of minority protection standards at the level of South East European countries as well as at the European level. After seeking to identify a developing common European standard of minority protection, it offers an answer to the question of how minority protection contributes to political as well as regional stability and to democratic institution-building in South Eastern Europe. Furthermore, it attempts to report whether the prospect of European integration and the EU's minority protection conditionality have contributed to regime stability and the democratic consolidation of these countries and whether minority protection as a conditionality requirement for EU accession is comprehensively being applied in the monitoring activities of the EU. Finally, it investigates the question of what legal and social indicators can be developed for future conflict prevention through early warning."--BOOK JACKET.Marko, Joseph is the author of 'European Integration and its Effects on Minority Protection in the Western Balkan Countries', published 2008 under ISBN 9783832930806 and ISBN 3832930809.