Nurkić, Benjamin2025-01-232025-01-232024„Review of European and Comparative Law”, 2024, Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 133-147.2545-384Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/8223This paper aims to detect possible pitfalls for post-war Ukraine with regard to establishing the rule of law and the path to joining the EU. Since countries in the Western Balkans were in a similar situation to that Ukraine is facing nowadays, the author explains what Ukraine should learn from their post-war experiences. The author identifies the main pitfall for Ukraine after the Russian aggression ends, which is stabilitocracy. The author then suggests what should be the post-war strategy for Ukraine should be, and what should be done to avoid the “stabilitocratization” of Ukraine.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/stabilitocracyrule of lawUkraineWestern BalkansEuropean Unioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.31743/recl.17785