Foreign policy priorities of Montenegro with special reference to obstacles to accession to the European Union

master's thesis

• Title (english): Vanjskopolitički prioriteti Crne Gore s posebnim osvrtom na prepreke pristupanju Europskoj Uniji
• Author: Boris Vukotić
• Mentor: Petar Popović (mentor)
• Committee member: Petar Popović (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Zoran Kurelić (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Dejan Jović (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; The Faculty of Political Science; Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2023-09-21, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political Science

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the main foreign policy priorities of Montenegro since the restoration of its independence in 2006, and to explain why accession negotiations with the European Union were interrupted. The fact is that the European integration of Montenegro is its most important foreign policy priority, which has not changed even after the defeat of the three-decade-old government in the 2020 elections. At least declaratively. Also, the work includes the influence of the Russian Federation on the area of the Western Balkans, and the complex activities of the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church aimed at destabilizing the region. The mentioned activities indirectly but as it turned out decisively contributed to the collapse of the Montenegrin state structure, i.e. the failure of the entire state system. The paper describes the methodology of instrumentalization of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro in order to achieve the defined interests of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Serbia. Also, the genesis of the ideas of "Russian soft power" and "Russian world" is described, on the basis of which the idea of "Serbian world" was developed as a modified version of Serbia's big-state policies from the 1990s. Ultimately, the paper shows the reaction of the main policy makers for the region and tries to anticipate the further course of events.

• Keywords: foreign policy priorities; integration process; SOC; ROC; soft power; Russian world; Serbian world; non-functioning of institutions
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:114:817718
• Study programme: Title: Master of European Studies; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: MAGISTAR EUROPSKIH STUDIJA (MAGISTAR EUROPSKIH STUDIJA)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2023-11-17 12:38:10