Introduction to: Europeanization and Conflict Resolution: Case Studies from the European Periphery

Abstract

This volume explores whether and how EU-integration policies and multi-tier governance structures could support sustainable solutions to some outstanding ethno-secessionist crises at the periphery of the EU, where 'sustainable' means that these solutions are perceived as both efficient and just. It studies the relevance of the process of Europeanization for the settlement of four secessionist conflicts: in Cyprus, Serbia and Montenegro, Georgia-Abkhazia and Moldova-Transnistria. All four cases entail unresolved secessionist crises.

Keywords

• European Union
• Europeanization
• Secessionist conflicts
• Cyprus
• Serbia and Montenegro
• Georgia-Abkhazia
• Moldova-Transnistria