Mladenović, Nikola (2021) The 2013 Brussels Agreement and the Political Discourse of the Serbian Leadership: Pro-EU Adaptation with Anti-EU Rhetoric. Europe-Asia Studies, 74 (5). pp. 832-856. ISSN 0966-8136

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Abstract

With the 2013 Brussels Agreement, Serbia met the EU’s expectations in order to advance its membership bid. However, the Agreement was embedded in anti-EU rhetoric on a domestic level, which included criticising EU mediation and previous actions in the EU integration process. Based on Riker’s rational choice discourse analysis and by using a spatial metaphor of competition, the article attempts to explain this discrepancy. It suggests that Serbian parties deliberately used ambiguous positioning to obscure their actions. In a wider picture, Serbian domestic actors in the Europeanisation process have more complex motives than the literature has suggested so far, and they are neither pure reformers nor reform-adverse.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Centers of the Institute for Political Studies > Centar za proučavanje demokratije i političkih partija H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Divisions:	Journal Articles and Reviews
Depositing User:	Jelena Banović
Date Deposited:	20 Feb 2023 19:42
Last Modified:	28 Nov 2023 20:35
URI:	http://repozitorijumips.rs/id/eprint/87

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