Amazon.com description: Product Description: This publication represents a comparative and up-to-date analysis of minority standards at the level of South-East European countries, as well as the European level. The book offers an answer to the question of how minority protection contributes to regional and democratic institution-building in the Western Balkan countries. Furthermore, it reports whether the prospect of European integration, and European Union conditionality of minority protection, contributed to regime stability and democratic consolidation of the countries. It discusses the development of a common European standard of minority protection as a possible substantive principle of the EU. Additionally, it analyzes whether or not minority protection, as a structural principle or conditionality requirement for EU accession, is comprehensively applied in the monitoring activities of the EU.