B6245 - The Balkans: from War to European Integration

Academic Year 2026/2027

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in East European and Eurasian Studies (cod. 6751)

Learning outcomes

This course provides students with the analytical and conceptual tools to examine the political development of the Western Balkans in the post-war period, roughly since the end of the 1990s. This period has been characterized by a shift from managing the consequences of the wars of Yugoslav dissolution to the attempt to advance in the European integration process. Accordingly, students will acquire the critical theoretical tools necessary to study peacebuilding and enlargement processes in the region; they will explore the opportunities and obstacles that these transition processes present; and they will investigate some of the key themes (i.e. geopolitical competition, democratic backsliding, and social movements) that contribute to impact on the transition from war to European integration.

Course contents

This is a course based both on lectures and students’ participation and active engagement in class discussions and exercises. Its success depends on students being well prepared for each session.

It is divided into 2 main parts. The first section (16 hours) will introduce students to the key theoretical and analytical tools necessary to understand and critically evaluate political dynamics in the Balkans, including international efforts to influence domestic processes. It will present and discuss the role of the key actors (domestic elites, civil society, and international interveners) both in the process of Yugoslav dissolution and the post-war attempt to develop closer links with the European Union.

The second part of the course is organized into discussion seminars. It will take into consideration the opportunities and obstacles facing post-Yugoslav states in their road to the EU. Students will apply the concepts, theoretical tools and contextual information analyzed during the first part in order to explore the cases of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. All students are required to read the material in advance of the class meetings and be ready to engage with both the instructor and their peers.

Each week will discuss one of the cases above and is organized as follows: the first week meeting will be devoted to the general discussion of the case, based on reading material outlined in the syllabus. In the second week meeting 3/4 students will role-play the positions of the key actors involved in the process of EU enlargement, identifying and discussing the key controversial issues, while the audience in the class will engage them with their questions. Detailed explanations of this role-play exercise will be provided at the beginning of the course (some of the pedagogical ideas underpinning this activity can be found in R. Belloni, “Role-playing International Intervention in Conflict Areas: Lessons from Bosnia for Northern Ireland Education,” International Studies Perspectives, 2008, 9(2): 220-234).

All students should watch the BBC documentary The Death of Yugoslavia, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsBTkAXnPZs

*Please note that the final version of the syllabus may contain few minor changes and will be uploaded on “Virtuale” shortly before the beginning of the semester

Readings/Bibliography

Part I: Lectures

  1. Introduction: The Balkans and their Slow Disappearance (Wednesday, 23 September)

    Required:

    - M. Todorova, “The Balkans: from Discovery to Invention,” Slavic Review, 1994, 53 (2): 453 - 482.

    Recommended:

  • -- P. Simic, “ Do the Balkans Exist?”, in D. Triantapyllou, ed.,The Southern Balkans: Perspectives from the Region. Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies, 2001 (pp. 17-35).
  • Hammond, A. “Balkanism in political context: From the Ottoman Empire to the EU,” Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 2006, 3 (3), 6–26.

  1. Yugoslavia and Its Peoples (Thursday, 24 September)

    Required:

  • Christopher Bennett, Yugoslavia’s Bloody Collapse. London: Hurst, 1995, Introduction and Ch. 1 (pp. 1-32).
  • McCumiskey, J. “Yugoslavia: A Brief Background, 1919-1990,” in McCumiskey, British Foreign Policy in Former Yugoslavia, 1989-1999, Palgrave, 2024 (1-25).

  1. Yugoslavia and its Demise (Wednesday, 30 September)

    Required:

  • Christopher Bennett, Yugoslavia’s Bloody Collapse. London: Hurst, 1995, chaps. 5 & 6 (pp. 67-111).
  • Dragovic-Soso, J. “Why did Yugoslavia Disintegrate? An Overview of Contending Explanations,” in C. Stanley & J. Dragovic-Soso, eds., State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on Yugoslavia’s Disintegration. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press (1-39).
  • Watch the BBC documentary The Death of Yugoslavia, available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsBTkAXnPZs (especially episodes 5 & 6).

    Recommended:

  • Banac, I. “What Happened in the Balkans (or Rather ex-Yugoslavia)?” East European Politics and Societies, 2009, 23 (4): 461-478.
  • Hoare, M. A. “The War of Yugoslav Secession,” in S. P. Ramet, ed., Central and Southeast European Politics Since 1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (11-135).
  • M. Bakic-Hayden, “Nesting Orientalism: The Case of Former Yugoslavia,” Slavic Review, 1995, 54 (4): 917-931.
  1. Post-War Transition(s) and the “Liberal Peace” (Thursday, 1 October)

    Required:

  • Belloni, R. “Peacebuilding in the Balkans,” ch. 1 of Belloni, The Rise and Fall of Peacebuilding in the Balkans. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2020.
  • Belloni, R. “The Evolution of Peacebuilding,” ch. 2 of Belloni, The Rise and Fall of Peacebuilding in the Balkans. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2020.

    Recommended:

  • Belloni, R. “Stability and the Anti-corruption Agenda,” ch. 3 of Belloni, The Rise and Fall of Peacebuilding in the Balkans. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2020.
  • Tepsic, G. & Vukelic, M. “Deconstructing Liberal Peacebuilding: Lessons from the Balkans,” The Review of International Affairs, 2022, 73 (1184): 71-89.
  1. Enlargement: EUtopian Dreams (Tuesday, 6 October)

    Required:

    • Zhelyakhova, A., Damjanovsky, I., Nechev, Z., Schimmelfennig, F. (2019) “European Union Conditionality in the Western Balkans: External Incentives and Europeanisation,” in Dzankic, J. ed., The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans. Houndmills: Palgrave (ch. 2, pp. 15-37).
    • Chandler, D. “The EU and Southeastern Europe: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance,” Third World Quarterly, 2010, 31 (1): 69-85.

    Recommended:

    • Kochenov, D. (2004) “Behind the Copenhagen Façade: The Meaning and Structure of the Copenhagen Political Criterion of Democracy and the Rule of law,” European Integration Online Papers, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=563743
    • Belloni, R. “EUtopia and the Pull of Integration,” ch. 5 of Belloni, The Rise and Fall of Peacebuilding in the Balkans. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2020
    • Belloni, R. “Western Balkan Transitions and the Role of the European Union,” ch. 6 of Belloni, The Rise and Fall of Peacebuilding in the Balkans. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2020
  1. The Enlargement Process (Wednesday, 14 October)

    Required:

  • Clingendael, eds., The EU as a Promoter of Democracy or ‘Stabilitocracy’ in the Western Balkans? The Hague: Clingendael, February 2022. Available at: https://www.thinkforeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The-EU-as-a-promoter-of-democracy-or-stabilitocracy_2eproef.pdf
  • Anghel, V. & Dzankic, J. “Wartime EU: Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War on the Enlargement Process,” Journal of European Integration, 2023, 45 (3): 487-501.
  • J. Cloos, “The Future of the EU: Scenarios for Internal Reform and Credible Enlargement,” in I. Vidacak, ed., The Western Balkans and the Challenges of EU Accession. London: Routledge, 2026 (67-79).

    Recommended:

  • Belloni, R. “The Western Balkans on the (Slow) Train to Europe,” in G. Easter, ed., De Gruyter Handbook of Eastern European Politics, Society and Culture. De Gruyter, 2026 (135-147).
  • Sekulic, T. “Framing the Field Within the Text: Analysis of the European Commission Reports on the Western Balkan Countries in a Longitudinal Perspective 2008–2019,” in Sekulic, T., The European Union and the Paradox of Enlargement. Houdmills: Palgrave, 2020 (89-173).
  • Miscevic, T. & Mrak, M., “The EU Enlargement Process: Western Balkans vs EU-10,” Croatian Political Science Review, 2017, 54 (4): 185-204.

    Belgrade Center for Security Policy, Bilateral Disputes and EU Enlargement, https://bezbednost.org/en/publication/bilateral-disputes-and-eu-enlargement-a-consensual-divorce-2/

  • European Stability Initiative (ESI). Scoreboard: The True State of Accession. What the Commission Assessments Reveal. Berlin: ESI, 2023. Available at: https://www.esiweb.org/sites/default/files/reports/pdf/ESI%20Scoreboard%20-%20the%20true%20state%20of%20accession%20-%2017%20March%202023.pdf

  1. The Enlargement Problems (Wednesday, 21 October)

    Required:

  • Richter, S. & Wunsch, S. (2020) “Money, Power, Glory: The Linkages between EU Conditionality and State Capture in the Western Balkans,” Journal of European Public Policy, 27 (1): 41-62.
  • P. Cveticanin et al. (2024) “Captured states and/or captured societies in the Western Balkans,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 24 (1): 41-62.
  • M. Milenkovic and M. Milenkovic, “The culturalization of bilateral conditionality: heritage, identity, and EU enlargement in the Western Balkans,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2026, online.

    Recommended:

  • Economides, S. From Fatigue to Resistance: EU Enlargement and the Western Balkans. Dahrendorf Forum, Working Paper 17, 20 March 2020. Available: https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/104393/1/Economides_from_fatigue_to_resistance_published.pdf
  • Panagiotou, R. “The Western Balkans between Russia and the European Union: Perceptions, Reality, and Impact on Enlargement,” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2021, 29 (2):
  • Vachudova, M. “EU Enlargement and State Capture in the Western Balkans,” in J. Dzankic, eds, The Europeanization of the Western Balkans. Houndmills: Palgrave (63-85).
  • Dudley, D. “European Union Membership Conditionality: The Copenhagen Criteria and Quality of Democracy,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2020, 20 (4): 525-545.
  1. Social Movements and the Backlash Against Enlargement (Thursday, 22 October)

    Required:

  • L. Pollozhani & F. Bieber (2026) “Protests for change: mass protests against competitive authoritarian regimes in the Western Balkans,” in B. Yabanci et al., Contesting Autocratisation; Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resistance in a Global Perspective. Routledge (97-118).
  • C. Milan & D. Dolenec (2023) “Social movements in Southeast Europe: from urban
  • mobilisation to electoral competition,” East European Politics, 39 (4): 577-587.
  • Filip Balunovic, The Revival of the Left in the Balkans: Counter-Hegemonic Activism and Ideas that Fueled It. Routledge, 2025, ch. 1 (pp. 1-22).

    Recommended:

  • Stiks, I. & Stojakovic, K. The New Balkan Left: Struggles, Successes, Failures. Belgrade: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2021. Available: https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/images/Ausland/Osteuropa/STIKS_STOJAKOVIC-BALKAN_LEFT_WEB.pdf
  • Bieber, F. & Trentin, D. eds., Social Movements in the Western Balkans: Rebellion and Protest from Maribor to Taksim. London: Routledge, 2019.
  1. Mid-term In-class Exam (Wednesday, 28 October)

Part 2: Case Studies

  • 10& 11. Bosnia-Herzegovina (29 October: class discussion; 4 November: role-play)

Required:

  • European Commission, 2024 Bosnia Progress Report, https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/document/download/451db011-6779-40ea-b34b-a0eeda451746_en?filename=Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina%20Report%202024.pdf
  • Bod Weber (2021) Western Collusion in Undermining the Rule of Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina: an Overview, DPC Policy Paper, http://www.democratizationpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/DPC-Policy-Paper_BiH-RoL-SeriesI_Western-Collusion-in-Undermining-RoL-in-BiH.pdf
  • European Parliament (2015), Bosnia-Herzegovina: the ‘Sejdic-Finci’ Case, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2015/559501/EPRS_ATA(2015)559501_EN.pdf
  • Delalic, S. & Delalic, Z. (2024) “European Union Enlargement Policy with Special Reference to Bosnia and Herzegovina – Preferences and Downsides,” MAP Social Sciences 4: 124-136, https://mapub.org/ojs/index.php/mapss/article/view/111/146
  • Chrzová, B. “Bosnian-Herzegovinian Citizens in the Making – the Citizenship Debate in the Time of Social Mobilizations,” Nationalities Papers, 2024, 52 (1): 60-78.
  • Belloni, R. and “Undoing International Peacebuilding from Below?” Ch. 8 of Belloni, The Rise and Fall of Peacebuilding in the Balkans. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2020.

    Explore these documentary sources, among others:

  • Bosnia Directorate for European Integration: https://www.dei.gov.ba/en/home
  • European Commission: https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-policy/bosnia-and-herzegovina_en
  • Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of BiH: https://eu-monitoring.ba/en/

    Recommended:

  • Belloni, R. & Zdeb, A., “Consociationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina: How to Build an Illiberal State,” in H. Preljević, E. Hadžikadunić, M. Mulalić, & M. Krupalija (Eds.), Shifting Paradigms: Three Decades after the Signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement. Springer, 2025
  • Milan, C. & Kapetanovic, A. (2025) “Civil Society and Grassroot Movements: Shifts and Developments in Thirty Years of Activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” in H. Preljević, E. Hadžikadunić, M. Mulalić, & M. Krupalija (Eds.), Shifting Paradigms: Three Decades after the Signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement. Springer, 2025
  • Perry, V.(2015) “Constitutional Reform in Bosnia-Herzegovina: does the Road to Confederation go through the EU?” International Peacekeeping, pp. 1-21.
  • Council of Ministers of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Communication Strategy of the Institutions of BiH on the Accession Process of Bosnia-Herzegovina to the European Union: from the Candidate Status to to Membership. Sarajevo: Directorate for European Integration, 2020. https://www.dei.gov.ba/uploads/documents/komunikacijska-strategija-eng-15-06-2020-web_1670836741.pdf
  • Siljak, D. & Nielsen, eds., K. Bosnia and Herzegovina and European Integration Obstacles and Challenges. Sarajevo: International University of Sarajevo, 2022. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376170817_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_and_European_Integration_Obstacles_and_Challenges_Edited_by_Dzenita_Siljak_Kristian_L_Nielsen
  • Hirkic, M., “The Question of an Alternative to EU Membership of Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Przeglad Europejski, 2019, 4: 169-181.
  • 12& 13. Serbia (5 November: class discussion; 11 November: role-play)

    Required:

    Required:

    Explore these documentary sources, among others:

  • European Commission, 2024 Serbia Progress Report, https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/document/download/3c8c2d7f-bff7-44eb-b868-414730cc5902_en?filename=Serbia%20Report%202024.pdf
  • Bonomi, M. & Uvalic, M. (2019) Serbia and the European Union, Oxford Research Encyclopedias.
  • Hajrullahu, A. (2019) “The Serbia Kosovo Dispute and the European Integration Perspective,” European Foreign Affairs Review, 24 (1): 101-120.
  • New Social Initiative (2024), Position Papers Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue, November, https://newsocialinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/23-Kosovo-Position-Paper-All01.pdf
  • Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/belgrade-pristina-dialogue_en
  • KCSS (Kosovo Center for Security Studies) (2024) Reassessing the Kosovo-Serbia Normalization Dialogue: Time for a Reset? https://qkss.org/images/uploads/files/Is_It_Time_for_a_Reset1.pdf
  • Selivestorova, A. (2026) “Absent Europe: Civic Protest and the Erosion of EU Symbolism
  • in Serbia,” Journal of Common Market Studies, 1-26, online first.
  • P. Millar (2025), “Why has the EU kept silent on Serbia’s massive protest movement?” France24, 20 March, https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250320-why-has-eu-kept-silent-serbia-massive-protest-movement-aleksandar-vucic

    Explore these documentary sources, among others:

    European Commission: https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-policy/serbia_en

    Serbia Ministry of European Integration: https://www.mei.gov.rs/eng

    Recommended:

  • Belloni, R. “Serbia between East and West: Ontological Security, Vicarious Identity and the Problem of Sanctions against Russia,” European Security, 2024, 33 (2): 284-302.
  • Dinic, I., “Serbia’s New Student Movement: A Conversation with Dubravka Stojanovic,” Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2025, 73 (1): 101-114.
  • Knezevic, A. (2025) “An Autoethnographic Account of the Anti-corruption Student Protests in Serbia 2024725,” Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 12 (1): 51-61.
  • Damnjianovic, K. et al (2024) “Selling Peace: How to Frame a Serbia/Kosovo Deal in a Referendum,” Nationalities Papers, 52 (3): 588-601.
  • Drasko, G.P., Fiket, I., Vasilijevic, J., “Big Dreams and Small Steps: Comparative Perspectives on Social Movement Struggle for Democracy in Serbia and North Macedonia,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2020, 20 (1): 199-219.
    • 14& 15. Kosovo: (12 November: class discussion; 18 November: role-play).

    Required:

  • Europan Commission, Kosovo Progress Report 2024, https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/document/download/c790738e-4cf6-4a43-a8a9-43c1b6f01e10_en?filename=Kosovo%20Report%202024.pdf
  • Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/belgrade-pristina-dialogue_en
  • KCSS (Kosovo Center for Security Studies) (2024) Reassessing the Kosovo-Serbia Normalization Dialogue: Time for a Reset? https://qkss.org/images/uploads/files/Is_It_Time_for_a_Reset1.pdf
  • Lika, L., Reka, B. “The European Union’s Relations with the Republic of Kosovo,” in Hajrullah, ed., Forging Kosovo: Between Dependence, Independence, and Interdependence. Bern: Peter Lang, 2021 (229-250).
  • Baracani, E. “Evaluating EU Actorness as a State-Builder in ‘Contested’ Kosovo,” Geopolitics, 2020, 25 (2): 362-386.
  • International Crisis Group (2024) Northern Kosovo: Asserting Sovereignty between Divided Loyalties, 2 April, https://www.crisisgroup.org/sites/default/files/2024-05/269-northern-kosovo-sovereignty.pdf
  • Mahar, E. “Local Contestation Against the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo,” Contemporary Security Policy, 2018, 39 (1): 72-94.

    Explore these documentary sources, among others:

    EULEX Rule of Law Mission Kosovo: https://www.eulex-kosovo.eu/?page=2,78

    European Commission: https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-policy/kosovo_en

    European Union External Action Service: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/kosovo_en

    Kosovo Directorate for European Integration: https://integrimievropian.rks-gov.net/en/european-integration/

    Recommended:

  • Seebass, F. “License Plates to Kill?” Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 2022, 2: 81-91.
  • Bargués, P. Dandashly, A., Dijkstra, H. & Noutcheva, G. , “Engagement against All Odds? Navigating Member States’ Contestation of EU Policy on Kosovo”, The International Spectator, 2024, 59 (1): 19-38.
  • Ker-Lindsady, J. & Armakolas, I. eds., Lack of Engagement: Surveying the Spectre of Member States Policies Towards Kosovo. Pristina: Open Society, 2017.
    • 16& 17. North Macedonia (19 November: class discussion; 25 November: role-playing)
  • European Commission, 2024 North Macedonia Progress Report, https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/document/download/5f0c9185-ce46-46fc-bf44-82318ab47e88_en?filename=North%20Macedonia%20Report%202024.pdf
  • https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/north-macedonia-report-2023_en
  • Demjaha, A. “The Path of North Macedonia Towards the European Union,” Justicia, 2020, 8 (13-14): 9-16.
  • Ceka, B. “Macedonia: A New Beginning?” Journal of Democracy, 2018, 29 (2): 143-157.
  • Demircioglu, F. et al. (2024) “North Macedonia after the Resolution of the Name Issue,” Balkan Social Science Review, 23, pp. 371-389.
  • Dukanovic, D. (2019) “North Macedonia and its Neighbors: Challenges and Perspectives,” Croatian International Relations Review, 25 (85): 90-114.
  • Marusic, Sinisa (2025) “North Macedonia’s Government’s First Year Report Card: Must do Better,” Balkan Insight, 24 June, https://balkaninsight.com/2025/06/24/north-macedonia-govts-first-year-report-card-must-do-better/
  • Miruna Butnaru-Troncotă, “Politicizing enlargement in times of uncertainty: ’the curious case’ of blocking and un-blocking decisions on Albania and North Macedonia’s EU path,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2025.
  • European Commission: https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-policy/north-macedonia_en

    Recommended:

  • Mavromatidis, F. “ The Role of the European Union in the Name Dispute between Greece and FYR of Macedonia,” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2010, 18 (1): 47-62.
  • Tziampiris, Aristotle. 2012. “The Macedonian name dispute and European Union accession.” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 12 (1): 153-171.
    • 18& 19. Montenegro (26 November : class discussion; 2 December: role-playing)

    Required:

  • European Commission, 2024 Montenegro Progress Report, https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/montenegro-report-2024_en
  • Dzankic, J. “Reconstructing the Meaning of Being ‘Montenegrin’”, Slavic Review, 2014, 73 (2): 347-371.
  • Komar, O. “The Elephant in the Room: Illiberal Politics in Montenegro,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2020, 20 (1): 61-80.
  • Bechev, D. The 2016 Coup Attempt in Montenegro: Is Russia’s Balkan Footprint Expanding? Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2018. Available: https://www.fpri.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/BechevFinal2018.pdf
  • D. Bechev, “Montenegro’s Window of Opportunity,” Carnegie, 12 March 2024, https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2024/03/montenegros-window-of-opportunity?lang=en&center=europe
  • Dukanovic, Without Fundamental Changes in Priorities, Montenegro’s EU Membership Could be Delayed,” European Western Balkans, 21 July, https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2025/07/21/ewb-interview-dukanovic-without-fundamental-changes-in-priorities-montenegros-eu-membership-could-be-delayed/
  • Vuckovic, V. “Introduction,” in Vuckovic, Europeanizing Montenegro: The European Union, the Rule of Law and Regional Cooperation. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, pp. 1-30.
  • B. Baca, “Defiant Civil Society: The Role of Social Movements and Contentious

    Politics in the Democratization of Montenegro,” Sudosteuropa, 2/3: 19-31.

    Explore these documentary sources, among others:

  • European Commission: https://neighbourhood-enlargement.ec.europa.eu/enlargement-policy/montenegro_en
  • Ministry of European Affairs: https://www.gov.me/en/mep

    Recommended:

  • Morrison, K. “Progress, Protests and Political Crisis (2012-2016),” in Morrison, Nationalism, State and Identity in Post-Yugoslav Montenegro. London: Bloomsbury, 2018 (151-168).
  • Luksic, I., Pejovic, A. “The Role of Civil Society in Montenegro’s European Union Accession Process,” in Briguglio, L. et al., Handbook of Civil Society and Social Movements in Small States. London: Routledge, 2023 (ch. 18).
  • Balazs, A. B. ed., The Europeanization of Montenegro. Nomos, 2021.
  • 20Final in-class exam and assessment of the process of European integration (3 December)

Teaching methods

Classes will mix traditional lectures, group discussions on assigned readings, and presentations and debates on case studies.

Assessment methods

Attendance is compulsory (at least 70% of all lectures/meetings).

Students who do regularly attend classes (at least 4 out of 5 class meetings of the second part of class on case studies):

Mid-term in-class exam: 1/3 of the final grade

Participation in class and role-play: 1/3 of the final grade

Final in-class exam: 1/3 of the final grade.

Teaching tools

ppt & audio-visuals

Office hours

See the website of Roberto Belloni

SDGs

Peace, justice and strong institutions

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.