@article {1061931,
	title = {Of Knights and Squires: European Union and the Modernization of Albania},
	journal = {North Carolina Journal of International Law},
	volume = {42},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {1},
	abstract = {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{\textquoteright}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.},
	author = {Ermal Frasheri}
}
