861 KB0 KB196520252020Bojinović Fenko, AnaKočan, FarisPožgan, Jureštevilka:4letnik:57str. 1124-1146, 1186ISSN:0040-3598COBISSID_HOST:48163075URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-BUNRDRO7enVisoka šola za politične vedeTeorija in praksaCovid-19Članstvočlanstvo EUEpidemicsEpidemijeevropska integracijaEvropska unijaMembershipOzemeljska širitevširitvena politikaTerritorial expansionZahodni Balkan"Never let a good crisis go to waste"| strengthening EU actorness amid increased competition of external actors in the Western Balkans|In this article, we argue that while examining the Western Balkans% integration process during the Covid-19 crisis we must take into consideration not only the EU%s influence but that of other powerful external actors as well. Based on the external incentives model, Russia, China and Turkey are thus analysed as competing external actors to the EU%s enlargement policy in the WB. We establish that during the Covid-19 crisis these actors have been increasingly competing with the EU especially with respect to the determinacy of conditions via state propaganda and by attacking the EU%s credibility with disinformation campaigns. Nevertheless, their influence in terms of the size of the rewards and domestic adoption costs has dropped in comparison to the EU as the latter has increased its rewards, strengthened conditionality and regained some of its lost credibility capabilities. The most significant change visible during the Covid-19 crisis is a further fragmentation in addressing individual WB states by Russia, China and Turkey, whereas the EU remains the only external actor capable and willing to addresses the entire WB regionČlanek proučuje proces evropske integracije Zahodnega Balkana v obdobju krize zaradi epidemije covida-19, ob predpostavki, da pri tem ni treba upoštevati samo vpliva EU, temveč tudi druge vplivne zunanje akterje. Na podlagi modela zunanjih spodbud so Kitajska, Rusija in Turčija analizirane kot tekmujoči zunanji akterji širitveni politiki EU. Ugotavljamo, da so ti zunanji akterji med krizo zaradi nove koronavirusne bolezni okrepili tekmovanje z EU predvsem prek državne propagande z ozirom na jasnost pogojev sodelovanja in prek napadov na kredibilnost EU z dezinformacijskimi kampanjami. Kljub temu se je njihov vpliv v primerjavi z vplivom EU zmanjšal z vidika velikosti nagrade in domačih stroškov prilagoditve. EU je namreč v analiziranem obdobju povečala svoje nagrade, okrepila pogojevanje in si povrnila del prej izgubljene kredibilnosti. Najpomembnejšo spremembo v času krize zaradi covida-19 pa pomeni povečanje fragmentacije pri naslavljanju posameznih držav Zahodnega Balkana s strani Rusije, Kitajske in Turčije, pri čemer EU ostaja edini zunanji akter z zmogljivostmi in voljo, da Zahodni Balkan naslavlja enotno kot regijoTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za družbene vede