Western Balkans at the Crossroads: Ways forward in analyzing External Actors' Influence

While the engages with key questions related to the topic – the paper by Srećko Latal looks into positions and aspirations domestic/reception side of external actors’ presence and of foreign actors in the debate about expected electoral the role of the EU, and presents recommendations for reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other studies European policy makers. [...] The topicality of the to join the Euro-Atlantic structures, can never be complete COVID related shifts on the global geopolitical scene and without a critical assessment of the role and responsibilities their translation in the Western Balkan space have led of the US, NATO and the EU and its member states. [...] The Ascent of Aleksandar Vučić’s Progressives: The Economy As a Central Theme To understand the importance of the partnership with its inability to find a solid position on the Kosovo issue and China for the current Serbian government, it is important rocked by several corruption scandals, this political trend to first consider the way the dominance of the Serbian was eventually brought down – as. [...] key driver of the election was economic adversity and the promise of sounder economic leadership under the In the same period, the discourse about the lamentable SNS. [...] The narrative of Chinese purchase in Smederevo is considered the basis for the Chinese as ‘brothers’ and as ‘saviours’ of the Serbian a new and improved image of China in Serbia (Novaković economy, and later of the Serbian nation, has intensified and Todorivić Štiplija 2020).