Demokratizacija i europeizacija kao teorijski okviri instrumenta uvjetovanosti u „Politici proširenja“ Europske unije

Abstract

European integration in the Western Balkans is the starting point of
europeanisation that is closely intertwined with the process of democratisation
and democratic consolidation; those two processes are interconnected and
conditioned. This paper presents concept of democratisation as wanted
political outcome of the EU Enlargement policy and theoretical frame of
europeanisation as international dimension of democratisation, i.e. one of the
EU external relations’ objectives. As it argued; those processes are inherent
from the beginning of the European integration in the Western Balkans that
strongly correlated with Stabilisation and Association Process (SAP). With its democratic conditionality European Union serves as main impulse and initiative of democratic consolidation determining official benchmarks in fulfilling political (Copenhagen) criteria and encouraging changes on different levels of democratisation process. Interdependence of modernisation, statehood development and influence of external actors, in a case of resolved nationbuilding question, increases the consolidation of former real-socialist countries in the Western Balkans.