Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU has responded by re-engaging with the Union’s neighbouring countries. This builds on the assumption that bringing them into the European family of liberal democracies will increase the resilience of the whole European community against external negative interference.
This paper examines the hybrid governance in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Albania, focusing on their capacity for democratic resilience and the effectiveness of EU democracy promotion, with attention to electoral systems, political parties, judicial independence, and media freedom.
This background paper delivers a comprehensive understanding of the post- independence trajectories of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine toward the consolidation of hybridity, understood as a distinct type of regime that oscillates between democratic and authoritarian practices of power.
This paper examines the policies and instruments the EU has deployed to promote democracy in the Western Balkans and the eastern neighbourhood
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