The European Union and Southeastern Europe

The Author: András Inotai has been director general of the Institute for World Economics, Budapest since 1991. In the 1970s, he worked in Germany and in Peru, and joined the World Bank in Washington D.C. in 1989. Professor of the College of Europe (Bruges and Natolin) since the early 1990s, and Visiting Professor at Columbia University (New York) in 2002. His key research areas include regional integration with special reference to economic developments in and enlargement of the European Union, globalization, international direct capital flows, comparative survey of economic transformation in Central and Southeastern Europe.

Contents: Institutional relations between the EU and Southeastern Europe – Basic features of macroeconomic performance in regional comparison. Achievements, barriers, policy dilemmas and tasks – Selected special issues influencing relations between the EU and SEE – Southeastern Europe and its international actors – Evaluation of the Key EU Approach to Southeastern Europe: The Politics of Conditionality – Agenda for the Future and Recommendations – Conclusions.

«Overall, this is an important book. [...] the author has concluded a worthy and important effort of shedding new light on previously poorly understood issues.» (László Csaba, Acta Oeconomica)