CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Stojanovic, Jelena |
|---|---|
| Title | EU Political Conditionality and Domestic Politics: Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in Croatia and Serbia |
| Summary | Starting from the literature that analyzes the influence of the EU on domestic conditions in member states the thesis attempts to expand the scope of literature by focusing on candidate and potential candidate states Croatia and Serbia. The thesis identifies the main factors that influence the fulfillment of the specific EU membership conditions, especially the cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The main question is which factors hamper of facilitate compliance with political conditionality and how the variation of the compliance record between the states and within the same states during different time periods can be explained. The research uses rationalist arguments, where actors are studied in terms of how they react to external pressures in light of their interests in the domestic political arena. The factors are threat of incumbent government losing power, attitude of governments towards the ICTY and EU, partisan veto players, institutional veto points and size and timing of EU rewards. The two countries are divided into seven cases, on the basis of the elections held in the last twelve years. The conclusions can be summarized as follows: EU rewards are necessary but not sufficient to tip off the balance in favor of fulfillment of the conditions for membership. As both Croatia and Serbia demonstrated there are certain issues related to national sovereignty that are not easily sidelined. Therefore, when domestic conditions are ripe and if they do not endanger government position and are not against fundamental principles on which the governing party makes its policy, then the conditions are fulfilled. |
| Supervisor | Sedelmeier, Ulrich |
| Department | International Relations PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/iphstj01.pdf |
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