Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The EU and the Western Balkans * The EU and Post-Socialist Europe: assistance, association and accession. * The EU and the Western Balkans: entrants, candidates and potential candidates * EU priorities and conditionality in the Potential Candidate Countries: a different approach and agenda? * EU Aid and Assistance 2000-2006: The CARDS programme * Aid and assistance 2007-2013: the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) 2. Theorizing EU assistance and intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo * Civil society development aid as a framework for assessing EU assistance * Capacity building instead of civil society? * A good governance perspective on EU assistance 3. The EU in Bosnia-Herzegovina * Bosnia's past and present: external development and intervention * Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina: from Dayton to Brussels * Bosnia and the EU 4. The EU in Serbia * Serbian politics after Milosevi? * Serbia and the EU: political context and recent developments * EU assistance to Serbia 5. Quantitative analysis of EU assistance to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia 6. EU assistance and intervention in Kosovo: lessons learnt? * Civil society and the non-state sector in Kosovo - the challenge for EU assistance * EU assistance in practice: the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) Conclusion
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