EU Facilitated Belgrade - Pristina Talks: Analysis of the Impact of Domestic Actors on the Process of Dialogue
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of the EU conditionality on the domestic developments in Serbia and Kosovo during the process of normalization of their relations. Given the importance of local ownership and involvement in successful application of the EU conditionality, we will attempt to shift the analysis of EU conditionality from the EU perspective on to its domestic implications within the dynamics of the political climates of Serbia and Kosovo using the Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier's external incentives model as our main theoretical framework.
Since any future progress in the EU integration was made conditional on the progress in normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, our main goal will be to (1) identify the key local actors, to (2) evaluate their positions towards the EU and the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo and to (3) test their impact on the EU milestones already achieved.