Conditionality and the Ambitions of Governance: Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe

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by  Joel T. Shelton

Conditionality and the
Ambitions of Governance
Joel T. Shelton
Social Transformation in Southeastern
Europe
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Conditionality and the
Ambitions of Governance
Social Transformation in Southeastern
Europe
Joel T. Shelton
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and Law,
Lafayette College, USA
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To my parents,
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and my grandparents,
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who made this book possible.
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Map of Southeastern Europe xii
1 Introduction: Conditionality in Crisis? 1
1.1 From crisis to conditionality 1
1.2 A brief history of european union conditionality 4
1.3 The political economy of conditionality 10
1.4 From Smith to Foucault: poststructuralist readings of
political economy 15
1.5 The ambitions of conditionality 19
1.6 Plan of the book 23
Part I Political Economy and Conditionality
2 The Limits of International Political Economy 29
2.1 Disciplining political economy 29
2.2 The calculations of rationalist IPE 31
2.3 Conceptualizing conditionality 34
2.4 Rethinking political economy 49
2.5 Conclusion 56
3 The Anxieties of Classical Political Economy 58
3.1 Toward a political economy of disharmony 58
3.2 James Steuart and the ambitions of governance 62
3.3 Adam Smith and the fragility of social exchange 70
4 Political Economy and the Problem of Conduct 80
4.1 Managing disharmonious spaces 80
4.2 Karl Marx and the subjective requirements of
accumulation 81
4.3 Max Weber and the habits of bureaucracy 92
4.4 Neoliberal anxieties: continuity and innovation 95
Part II Conditionality as Technique of Governance
5 Assembling Conditionality in the Republic of Macedonia 101
5.1 Conditionality in its latest phase 101
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5.2 Instruments of conditionality 104
5.3 Prioritization 105
5.4 Programming 114
5.5 Evaluation 122
5.6 Conclusion 131
6 Ambitions Interrupted: Conditionalizing
Human Resources Development 133
6.1 From average laborer to adaptive entrepreneur 133
6.2 Normalizing entrepreneurial subjects 136
6.3 Socializing inclusive individuals 141
6.4 Rationalizing organizational behavior 144
6.5 Evaluating conditionality: technical constraints 148
7 Conditionality and the Future of ‘Europe’ 158
7.1 Conditionality dispersed: agencies and interventions
in Southeastern Europe 158
7.2 Political economy and the limits to
‘social transformation’ 164
7.3 Conditionality and the politics of inevitability 173
7.4 Conditionality as universal imperative 179
Notes 182
Bibliography 184
Index 191
Acknowledgments
This book had its genesis in the Department of Political Science at
Virginia Tech and was completed at Lafayette College in the fall of 2014.
I owe a debt of gratitude to these institutions and to the Technische
Universität Darmstadt in Germany, which provided a home for my
research in late 2011. As with any project that spans a number of years,
my debts to specific individuals are many.
I especially want to acknowledge the contributions of colleagues and
friends in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech who have
supported this research in many ways. Edward Weisband, Timothy W.
Luke, Scott G. Nelson, and Yannis Stivachtis shaped the project early
on, read numerous early drafts, and challenged me to bring this book to
publication. Edward pushed me to ‘earn my spurs’, shared his infectious
love of teaching, counseled me on life and learning, and challenged
me to be a scholar at home in the world. Tim encouraged my work at
every turn, and his generous insights transformed my understanding of
political economy. Scott has been a selfless mentor and friend for many
years, and our conversations (on and off the golf course) have strength-
ened this project at every stage. Yannis introduced me to the vast litera-
ture on EU enlargement with kindness and good humor.
I also thank Charles L. Taylor, who introduced me to the study of
Europe and the European Union as an undergraduate, as well as Erik
Jones of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
(SAIS), who taught a wonderfully engaging course on political econ-
omy at the Bologna Center, where I studied in 2005-2006. In addition,
I acknowledge the many colleagues who helpfully discussed my work
on political economy and conditionality at academic conferences, espe-
cially Nicholas Kiersey, François Debrix, and Geoffrey Whitehall.
I appreciate the support of my colleagues in the Department of
Government and Law at Lafayette College, as well as other friends at the
college who welcomed me to Easton and encouraged me along the way.
I also acknowledge John H. Clark, Data Visualization and GIS Librarian,
Digital Scholarship Services, Skillman Library, Lafayette College, who
created the map of Southeastern Europe featured in the book and kindly
permitted its reproduction.
Special thanks to those officials of the EU and the Republic of
Macedonia who so generously agreed to be interviewed as part of this
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