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Download fileThe German hegemony in the western Balkans within the framework of international political economy
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posted on 2018-07-04, 10:37 authored by Fotis I. MavromatidisThe western Balkans is a region that throughout history has been the field of the competition of
great powers and of power games. Many hegemonies have been established in this region and even
more conflicts have taken place, with Germany to play an important role in most of them. Despite the
past and the recent destruction that finished in 1999, the western Balkans appearing stable enough
and ready to integrate into the West. Nevertheless, the terms of this integration as well as the
historical experience create questions that this research comes to answer.
In particular, this thesis focuses on the role of Germany in this region and secondly on the role
of the EU in the western Balkans and tries to explore whether there is a German hegemony.
Furthermore, we are trying to identify the role of the European Union in the establishment of an
hegemony and whether the European Union represents a tool for the promotion of certain interests
in the western Balkans. As it would be obvious later, the kind of hegemony that is explored has
politico-economic nature and operates at elite level. For this purpose, we will rely on the neo-Gramscian
theory of hegemony. Finally, and in order to prove our case, we will conduct the research
with the use of Serbia, Albania and FYR Macedonia as case studies.
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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
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