The European Union's approach to conflict resolution: transformation or regulation in the Western Balkans? (1st)

This title investigates and explains the European Union's approach to conflict resolution in three countries of the Western Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo.

In doing so, it critically interrogates claims that the EU acts as an agent of conflict transformation in its engagement with conflict-affected states.

It argues, contrary to the assumptions of much of the existing literature, that rather than seeking the transformation of conflicts, the EU pursues a more conservative strategy based on the regulation of conflict through the promotion of institutional mechanisms such as consociational power sharing and decentralisation.