Bridging Europe’s Divides through Regional Organizations
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- ISBN 9781032906812
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Amid a crisis of multilateralism on a continent rocked by war, this timely book shines light on the numerous international organizations (IOs) that have brought together European Union (EU) and non-EU countries since the Cold War ended and the Balkans fragmented. These regional and subregional organizations – which have evolved and multiplied – provide fertile ground for the author’s examination of IO formalization, financing, adaptation, identity-building, proliferation, overlap, and persistence.
Based on extensive new field research, including elite interviews with IO and government staff from across Central and Southeastern Europe, this study explores the interplay of IO member state interests, external actors, resources, and bureaucracies in the emergence and persistence of IOs. With dividing lines across Europe reified, it also highlights organizations working to bridge gaps between EU member states and aspirants in the context of Euro-Atlantic integration.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of intergovernmental organizations, regional cooperation, comparative regionalism, European integration, and Southeastern Europe (including the Western Balkans). It will also appeal to practitioners and policymakers with an interest in international cooperation and global governance.
Melanie H. Ram is Professor of Political Science at California State University, Fresno. She studies international organizations, EU enlargement, and Central and Eastern Europe. Her work on IOs and European integration has appeared in Global Governance, Journal of International Organizations Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Comparative European Politics, Ethnopolitics, and Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, among others. These explore IO agenda-setting, IO–IO coordination, EU conditionality, NGO advocacy, and policies on Roma inclusion.
