Books by James Ker-Lindsay

This volume critically appraises all the major areas of the UN's peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace building activities in Cyprus.

This work traces the attempts by the United Nations to bring about the reunification of Cyprus prior to the island's accession to the European Union on 1 May 2004.

Traces key events and debates in the development of Yugoslavia from its genesis to extinction. This book offers both a top down analysis of the diplomatic and political factors that drove the emergence and development of the state, and a bottom up exploration of the societal fact...ors that shaped the state, and led to its ultimate demise.
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The National Politics of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans examines the way in which a number of European Union members states, including Germany and France, formulate their policies towards enlargement in the Western Balkans. The six countries of the Western Balkans - Albani...a, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia - are on course to become the next members of the European Union. While there has been a lot of work on the ways in which these countries are preparing for accession, and how the EU as a whole approaches the question of expansion, very little attention has been paid to how individual EU member states regard enlargement into a region that presents a number of serious challenges, including the legacies of the conflicts of the 1990s, economic underdevelopment, and poor governance. Focusing on key states, such as Germany, France and Italy, the neighbouring countries of Central and South East Europe, and Britain, once a leading advocate of enlargement that is now in the process of leaving the European Union, this volume casts important new empirical and conceptual light on the diverse motivations that underpin member state attitudes towards EU enlargement. The National Politics of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans will be of great interest to scholars of the European Union, European Politcs, and the Politics of the Western Balkans. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.
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The celebrations which marked the accession of the Republic of Cyprus to the European Union on 1st May 2004 signalled the end of a fourteen year process since the island had first applied to join - and the end of six full years of complicated and intense negotiations. This book e...xamines the process of accession and its wide-reaching repercussions.
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