Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface and Acknowledgements VII
4. 1 The Threatening Other or Very Own? EU Drawbacks and the Politics of Self-Undoing 1
5. Between Past and Present
6. 2 The Polish Early Modern Republic as the Other Europe: The Sarmatian Moment of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the Polish Political Discourse 29
7. 3 The Pursuit of France’s Milieu Goals (1871–1925): The French Mental Mapping of East-Central Europe 55
8. 4 Mirroring Europeanization: Balkanization and Auto-Colonial Narrative in Bosnia and Herzegovina 79
9. 5 Turkey and Europe: The Eternal Suspense 107
10. 6 Heart of Europe, Heart of Darkness: Ukraine’s Euromaidan and Its Enemies 129
11. Between Present and Future
12. 7 Managing Ambivalence: An Interplay Between the Wanted and Unwanted Aspects of European Integration in Georgia 161
13. 8 Guiding Macedonia to the EU: Walking Over European Values 185
14. 9 Kosovo’s EU Perspective: Pushing it Forward or Pulling it Away? 213
15. 10 Can Albania Europeanize? Actors and Factors 235
16. 11 Studying Trajectory of Turkey’s EU Membership: Criticisms and Contributions of Critical Political Economy 261
17. 12 In Lieu of a Conclusion: Regaining Dignity in Europe 281
18. Notes on Contributors 293
19. Index 295