The article analyses the post-Yugoslav lands as a historicalinstitutional laboratory where EU enlargement operates as a device for “defending democracy”. It reconstructs the link between the Yugoslav dissolution, the Stabilisation and Association Process and the Thessaloniki promise, examining how constitutional resilience, monitored constitutionalism and rule of law conditionality interact with growing enlargement fatigue in the Western Balkans.

DEFENDING DEMOCRACY IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: EUROPEAN IDENTITY, SECURITY, AND COSTITUTIONAL CRISES (1990-)

Ubaldo VILLANI LUBELLI
2026-01-01

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The article analyses the post-Yugoslav lands as a historicalinstitutional laboratory where EU enlargement operates as a device for “defending democracy”. It reconstructs the link between the Yugoslav dissolution, the Stabilisation and Association Process and the Thessaloniki promise, examining how constitutional resilience, monitored constitutionalism and rule of law conditionality interact with growing enlargement fatigue in the Western Balkans.
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