Southeast Europe
Legal Culture and Anti-Corruption Reform: Preliminary Findings of National Survey and Focus Groups Data
June 14, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
As Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo aim to harmonize their laws with the European Union, little is known about their legal culture and the extent to which European legal transfers are accepted in these countries. Using nationally representative surveys, focus groups, and in-depth interviews in Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo, this research project maps legal cultures in these countries and investigates the limits of anti-corruption reform. more
Unfinished Business - "The Western Balkans and the International Community"
Mar 26, 2012
European Studies Senior Associate Nida Gelazis to speak at a book discussion Unfinished Business - "The Western Balkans and the International Community." The event is part of a two-day South East European Economic Forum hosted by Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC. more
The Working Group on the Western Balkans: Setting an Agenda for Transatlantic Cooperation
November 29, 2011 // 10:00am — 3:00pm
The EU and the US agree that the long-term goal for the Western Balkans is European integration. For a variety of reasons, however, progress on this goal has stalled. This series aims at launching a discussion on the hurdles to enlargement in the Western Balkans, the tools available to various international actors in the region, and how these resources might best be applied to reach the goal of integration most efficiently. These meetings, therefore, address issues that are at the core of the making the Transatlantic relationship work. more
Unfinished Business - "The Western Balkans and the International Community"
Mar 26, 2012European Studies Senior Associate Nida Gelazis to speak at a book discussion Unfinished Business - "The Western Balkans and the International Community." The event is part of a two-day South East European Economic Forum hosted by Center for Transatlantic Relations SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC.
EU-US Energy Coordination Should Focus on Unconventional Gas
Dec 23, 2011Alexandros Petersen, advisor to the European Energy Security Initiative, discusses the future role of the newly established EU-US Energy Council in an article following the meeting between US Secretaries of State and Energy, Hillary Clinton and Stephen Chu with EU High Representative Catherine Ashton and Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger in late November.
SEP Scholar Opportunities
Oct 04, 2009The Southeast Europe Project is now accepting applications for the 2011 grant period.
Southeat Europe Project Announces Scholars for 2009
Jan 08, 2009The Southeast Europe Project today announced its annual selection of Policy and Contributing Scholars and their corresponding research projects under the auspices of the Wilson Center for 2009, as follows:• Dr. Gulner Aybet of the University of Kent at Canterbury, on "Turkey and the Transatlantic Bargain: Time to Renegotiate?"• Dr. Ruby Gropas of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), on "Democracy in the Balkans" • Mete Hatay, International Peace Research Institute-Oslo, on "Migration and the Cyprus Conflict: Toward a Global Perspective"• Ioannis Tsorbatzoglou of the American College of Thessaloniki, on "A Decade of Development and Reconstruction in Southeast Europe."
Podcast
Legal Culture and Anti-Corruption Reform: Preliminary Findings of National Survey and Focus Groups Data
June 14, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
As Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo aim to harmonize their laws with the European Union, little is known about their legal culture and the extent to which European legal transfers are accepted in these countries. Using nationally representative surveys, focus groups, and in-depth interviews in Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo, this research project maps legal cultures in these countries and investigates the limits of anti-corruption reform.
The Working Group on the Western Balkans: Setting an Agenda for Transatlantic Cooperation
November 29, 2011 // 10:00am — 3:00pm
The EU and the US agree that the long-term goal for the Western Balkans is European integration. For a variety of reasons, however, progress on this goal has stalled. This series aims at launching a discussion on the hurdles to enlargement in the Western Balkans, the tools available to various international actors in the region, and how these resources might best be applied to reach the goal of integration most efficiently. These meetings, therefore, address issues that are at the core of the making the Transatlantic relationship work.
The Working Group on the Western Balkans: Setting an Agenda for Transatlantic Cooperation
November 29, 2011 // 10:00am — 3:00pm
The EU and the US agree that the long-term goal for the Western Balkans is European integration. For a variety of reasons, however, progress on this goal has stalled. This series aims at launching a discussion on the hurdles to enlargement in the Western Balkans, the tools available to various international actors in the region, and how these resources might best be applied to reach the goal of integration most efficiently. These meetings, therefore, address issues that are at the core of the making the Transatlantic relationship work.
Policy Brief VI: Setting an Agenda for Transatlantic Cooperation
According to U.S. and EU officials, transatlantic coordination, communication and cooperation is excellent, and has improved substantially over the last few years. Meetings between the EU, U.S. State Department and OSCE officials occur regularly and conversations happen on a daily basis. The most important elements of the policy toward the Western Balkans are EU led and U.S. supported. This cooperation was most apparent in the Serbia-Kosovo negotiations that were restarted this year. The U.S. has joined the EU on policies dealing with specific issues, such as women’s empowerment, economic development and housing for refugees and internally displaced people. The overall policy of Euroatlantic integration is openly supported not only in Washington and Brussels, but also by civil society: opinion polls consistently reveal that EU accession is what the people of the region want.
Working Paper VI: EU - US Agenda in 2012: Transatlantic Support for Enlargement and Stability amidst Financial Crises
Over the course of 2011 a number of European analysts of US foreign relations predicted that in the future American foreign policy would have a new focus in Asia-Pacific. Stemming primarily from a political economy perspective that focuses on the impact of the market growth in leading emerging economies, this vision highlights the influence of Asia. This argument requires the thinking that geopolitical stability in Western Europe and the Mediterranean area, together with the politics of power and the politics of diplomacy matter less now than they did at any time since the Second World War.
Working Paper V: Barriers to EU Conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina
A key question popping up in 2011 will very likely continue to shape policy discussions and debates in the Western Balkans in 2012: why doesn’t the “magnetic pull” of Europe seem to be resulting in reform and progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina? The “transformative power” thesis that grounds the European Union’s engagements in pre-accession countries is predicated on the assumption that the promised riches of membership will drive domestic leaders in any EU-hopeful country to align their country’s policies and practices with the norms required by the Club.[1] The wave of accession over the past decade is used as an illustration of the success of this model. Poland, Hungary and Malta benefitted from the technical rigors of EU accession preparation, followed not so long after by even Bulgaria and Romania. Surely this process promotes and results in the political, social and economic change desired to preserve and expand the European experiment, and to move towards an “ever closer union.”
Alexandros Petersen
Visiting Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
ExpertiseEnergy security in Europe and Eurasia; Russia and Eurasia; Turkey; Caspian Sea; Central Asia; Caucasus conflicts
