The Vučić–Zelensky meeting in Belgrade showed that EU enlargement is "the only real common ground" shared by Serbia and Ukraine, says Giorgio Fruscione (ISPI)

More than sixty years ago, Robert Dahl posed a deceptively simple question: Who governs? His inquiry was not merely about who holds office, but about how power is exercised, who benefits from polit...

It seems "a game of castling in chess" – relinquishing the presidency for the role of prime minister and preserving power in Serbia, explains Fruscione (ISPI)

A new BiEPAG policy paper by Florian Bieber, Claudia Laštro, and Enej Lovrečič examines why democratic breakthroughs in the Western Balkans and other competitive authoritarian regimes so o...

Most Western Balkan leaders comfortably inhabit an indeterminate gray zone. They want the validation and benefits of being EU partners without paying the freight. In this sense, the entropy in Bosn...

Most Western Balkan leaders comfortably inhabit an indeterminate gray zone. They want the validation and benefits of being EU partners without paying the freight. In this sense, the entropy in Bosn...

An Accession Treaty combining full membership with safeguard mechanisms can be

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of the transformation of Western Balkan candidate countries as they move toward European Union