Gergana Noutcheva is Assistant Professor in International Relations and European Foreign Policy in the Department of Political Science at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

The Balkan countries have responded differently to the EU's conditional offer of membership. This book examines the diverging compliance patterns of the Balkan accession states and asks why some of them have complied substantially, some only partially and others have defied the EU.

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1. Introduction PART I: THEORIES AND CONCEPTS 2. Europeanizaton and the Compliance Patterns of Balkan States 3. Legitimization and European Foreign Policy PART II: THE DYNAMICS OF EU CONDITIONLAITY 4. The Policy of EU Conditionality in the Balkans 5. The Politics of EU Conditionality PART III: THE DYNAMICS OF COMPLIANCE in the balkans 6. The Record of Balkan Compliance with EU Conditionality 7. The Politics of Compliance in the Balkans 8. Conclusion