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Special Event: The EU and the Western Balkans
February 5, 2018 at 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
| Location: | Senate Room, 6th floor, Room 608 Robertson Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
A special event will be hosted by the Jean Monnet Chair (EUREAST) featuring a presentation, “EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans: The Rise of Stabilitocracy?” by Professor Florian Bieber.
About the lecture: The term ‘stabilitocracy’ has been coined to describe governments that claim to secure stability and to support EU integration, but actually rely on informal clientelist structures, control of the media and the regular production of crises to undermine democracy and rule of law. Dr. Bieber will discuss the degree to which this concept is applicable to countries of the West Balkans in light of structural features of EU enlargement and democractization processes in the region.
About the Roundtable: A panel discussion following the presentation will examine and discuss the views presented during the lecture. The panel will include Mr. Brice De Schietere and Professor Zoran Oklopcic.
Dr. Bieber is a Professor of Southeast European Studies and the Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. Powerpoint slides available here.
Mr. De Schietere is Deputy Head of Delegation at the Delegation of the European Union to Canada, Ottawa.
Zoran Oklopcic is Associate Professor of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University.
This event is free and open to the public.
This event is supported by the Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue and by the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Relations with Russia and the Eastern Neighborhood at Carleton University, which receives funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme.