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This book discusses the implications of the EU's current preoccupation with the management of the financial crisis for stability in the Western Balkans. The authors investigate policy developments, developments in the perceptions of the EU and EU integration in some Western Balkan countries, and the role of international actors like Turkey, Russia and the US in the region. It concludes that the financial crisis and internal crisis management of the EU have not had tremendous effects for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU in general, or the Union's stabilization policy in South East Europe more specifically. It has, however, laid bare some weaknesses in the EU's foreign and security policy framework.