Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Building Impossible States? State-Building Strategies and EU Membership in the Western Balkans 3. Incentives for Democratisation? Effects of EU Conditionality on Democracy in Bosnia & Hercegovina 4. Justice Imposed: How Policies of Conditionality Effect Transitional Justice in the Former Yugoslavia 5. Speaking European: Conditionality, Public Attitudes and Pro-European Party Rhetoric in the Western Balkans 6. EU Conditionality and Governance in Bosnia & Hercegovina: Environmental Regulation of the Trans-European Road Network 7. From Dayton to Brussels: The Impact of EU and NATO Conditionality on State Building in Bosnia & Hercegovina 8. The Constraints on European Institutions’ Conditionality in the Western Balkans

About the Author

Florian Bieber is a Professor at the University of Graz, Austria and Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies. He has taught at the University of Kent, Cornell University, Central European University of Bologna and the University of Sarajevo. He is the editor-in-chief of Nationalities Papers.