Keukeleire, Stephan; Kalaja, Arben; Çollaku, Artan --- "The European Union's policy on Kosovo" [2011] ELECD 225; in Koutrakos, Panos (ed), "European Foreign Policy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: European Foreign Policy

Editor(s): Koutrakos, Panos

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849804097

Section: Chapter 6

Section Title: The European Union's policy on Kosovo

Author(s): Keukeleire, Stephan; Kalaja, Arben; Çollaku, Artan

Number of pages: 31

Extract:

6. The European Union's policy on
Kosovo
Stephan Keukeleire, Arben Kalaja and Artan
Çollaku

INTRODUCTION1
The analysis in this chapter on the European Union's foreign policy in and on
Kosovo adopts a political perspective from the viewpoint of the specific
Kosovan context. The focus is not on the relevant EU institutions and deci-
sion-making processes in Brussels, but on the EU actors in Kosovo and on the
policy implementation and policy output on the ground. It not only illuminates
the EU's policy in Kosovo from an EU perspective (that is, to what extent does
this policy achieve the objectives that were determined), but also analyses and
assesses the EU's policy from a Kosovan perspective. In this context, it is
important to ask questions that would shed light on the EU's policy within the
specific Kosovan context, while examining the extent to which the EU takes
this context into account, or mainly follows its own Brussels agenda.
The specificity of the Kosovan context being the departure point of this
chapter, the following section provides a short historical background in order
to point to the dilemmas and challenges with which the EU is confronted in
this context, while the third section deals with the current legal, political and
socio-economic aspects of this context. The latter is not only useful to further
illuminate the policy challenges and dilemmas, but is also necessary to bring
to the fore the broader policy agenda from a Kosovan point of ...