Tadic and other outward-looking Serbs understand the nature of the EU accession process, and, in particular, how it acts as a mechanism of conflict resolution and encourages foreign direct investment, enhanced trade, accelerated economic growth, and more effective public administration. The EU’s eastern enlargement provides conclusive evidence to support this view, and demonstrates how the EU’s evolution has also encouraged a fundamental re-conceptualization of sovereignty as something de-territorialized and diffuse rather than static and unchanging.