Abstract

This paper will explore the visa liberalisation process and its implications affecting Western Balkan countries from the perspective of postmodern politics. It will be argued that the idea of citizenship which is deduced from the entire idea of visa liberalisation process for Western Balkan countries rests on a modernist notion of citizenship which is based on the idea of stable and fixed identity. This idea of citizenship is contradictory to the concept of European citizenship as a postnational, and, thus, postmodern concept based on multiple and shifting identities. Postmodern European politics should overcome universalist assertions of modernist Europe, which do not acknowledge the “non‐European world“.