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Of Knights and Squires: European Union and the Modernization of Albania

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  • Ermal Frasheri

    (Center for International Development at Harvard University)

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In this paper, I question the idea that a country develops and democratizes merely by pursuing a model of deeper regional integration with more prosperous countries. I examine the case of Albania’s integration into the European Union to show that more often than not, transition reproduces hierarchies and inequities that usually underpin relations between a prosperous center and a backward periphery. Instead of being a cure, a solution to the political primitivism and underdevelopment, the story with Europeanization as a model of modernization suggests that despite noble intentions and goals, reforms in the name of the European Union end up foregrounding a security state apparatus, impose an ideological hegemony, and maintain a political culture that inhibits democratization, while discouraging and displacing the need for endogenous growth strategies.

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  • Ermal Frasheri, 2016. "Of Knights and Squires: European Union and the Modernization of Albania," CID Working Papers 81a, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
    • Handle: RePEc:cid:wpfacu:81a
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    Economic Growth; European Union;

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