20.500.12556/RUL-189139 Selektivna vključenost EU v bilateralne spore v okviru širitve EU: študiji primera Hrvaške in Severne Makedonije EU’s selective involvement in bilateral disputes within the EU enlargement: comparative case studies of Croatia and North Macedonia Magistrsko delo obravnava selektivno vključenost Evropske unije (EU) v bilateralne spore v okviru pristopnega procesa. To doseže s primerjalno analizo dveh vertikalnih bilateralnih sporov med državo članico in državo kandidatko, in sicer mejnega spora med Slovenijo in Hrvaško ter identitetnega spora med Bolgarijo in Severno Makedonijo. Empirični del magistrske naloge, ki temelji na kvalitativni analizi primarnih dokumentov EU, je strukturiran skozi tri razlagalne mehanizme, in sicer racionalistični institucionalizem, sociološki institucionalizem in teorijo retorične ujetosti. Rezultati kažejo, da vključenost EU ni odvisna od resnosti spora, ampak od prekrivanja treh razlagalnih mehanizmov. V hrvaškem primeru so mehanizmi delovali dopolnjujoče, kar je omogočilo aktivno mediacijo in procesno ločitev spora od pristopnih pogajanj. V primeru Severne Makedonije pa so mehanizmi delovali omejevalno, saj je identitetna narava spora izničila možnost učinkovitega delovanja strateških in retoričnih pritiskov, kar je vodilo v politično postavljeno vključenost EU in delno institucionalizacijo bolgarskih zahtev v skupnem pogajalskem okviru. Rezultati magistrskega dela kažejo, da je vključenost EU v bilateralne spore selektivna in strukturno pogojena. Sedanji širitveni okvir EU ne razpolaga z zanesljivim institucionalnim mehanizmom za obravnavanje bilateralnih sporov, kar zmanjšuje predvidljivost pristopnega procesa in ustvarja tveganje za nadaljnjo bilateralizacijo. The thesis deals with the selective involvement of the European Union (EU) in bilateral disputes within the accession process. It does so through a comparative analysis of two vertical bilateral disputes between a member state and a candidate country, namely the border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia and the identity dispute between Bulgaria and North Macedonia. The empirical part of the thesis, based on a qualitative content analysis of primary EU documents, is structured through three explanatory mechanisms, namely rationalist institutionalism, sociological institutionalism and the theory of rhetorical entrapment. The results show that EU involvement does not depend on the severity of the bilateral dispute, but on the overlapping of the three explanatory mechanisms. In the Croatian case, the mechanisms operated in a complementary manner, which enabled active mediation and the procedural separation of the dispute from the accession negotiations. In the case of North Macedonia, however, the mechanisms operated in a constraining manner, as the identity-based nature of the dispute nullified the possibility of effective strategic and rhetorical pressure, leading to a politically positioned involvement of the EU and the partial institutionalisation of Bulgarian demands within the common negotiating framework. The results of the thesis show that EU’s involvement in bilateral disputes is selective and structurally conditioned. The current EU enlargement framework does not have a reliable institutional mechanism for addressing bilateral disputes, which reduces the predictability of the accession process and creates a risk of further bilateralisation. širitev EU bilateralni spori retorična ujetost Hrvaška Severna Makedonija. EU enlargement bilateral disputes rhetorical entrapment Croatia North Macedonia. true false false Slovenski jezik Angleški jezik Magistrsko delo/naloga 2026-10-02 07:30:19 2026-10-02 07:30:21 2026-10-05 03:42:06 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 1970-01-01 214221 31303.pdf 31303.pdf 1 268FEE6D42867EB16C55B16BC50C8F71 c18c11334e87f10990d87631449092911bbe2960dca62db56321f916b6010291 3ef8843d-be22-11f1-8bc5-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=249603 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0