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It is well known that the countries of the Western Balkans have been undergoing multiple, simultaneous and interconnected transitions–political, economic and post-war–for a generation. However, while the links between the political and the post-violent conflict transitions have been studied extensively over this period, the connections between the political and the economic, or among all three of these processes, have been less explored, leaving a gap in the understanding of the post-war political economy and its consequences. This special issue seeks to explore the region from this perspective, to begin to untangle the interplay of ineffective and incomplete political and economic reform on liberal democratic consolidation. In addition, there has been insufficient appreciation of the role that the non-violent yet significant frozen conflicts have had on political and social development, particularly (but not only) in …