The Governance of Citizenship Practices in the Post-Yugoslav States: The Impact of Europeanisation

Abstract

This Introduction explains the origins of the project of exploring citizenship and citizenship-related issues in the framework of Europeanisation in the new states in South East Europe. It defines the terminology used in the contributions and explains the conceptual underpinnings of the project and the structure of the edited collection. Finally, these introductory remarks also give an overview of the contributions to the special issue of Perspectives on European Politics and Societies entitled, ‘The governance of citizenship practices in the post-Yugoslav states: The impact of Europeanisation.'

Key Words:

• Citizenship
• Europeanisation
• governance
• post-Yugoslav states

Acknowledgements

The editors of the special issue and individual authors are thankful for the insightful comments of the anonymous reviewers.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Funding

The financial support of the European Research Council (CITSEE, ERC 230239) in the preparation of this special issue is acknowledged with gratitude. The support of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies for organising a one-day workshop is acknowledged with thanks.

Notes

¹ Details of the CITSEE project can be found on its websites: www.citsee.ed.ac.uk (which includes the text of working papers which present the raw findings of the CITSEE research) and www.citsee.eu (the Web Magazine Citizenship in South East Europe).