Building Up A Strategy For De Balkanizing The Balkans
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| Author | : Ferdinand Xhaferaj |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 106 |
| Release | : 2002-12-01 |
| Genre | : Balkan Peninsula |
| ISBN | : 9781423505785 |
Three years after the Kosovo conflict, the Balkans remains politically and socially unstable as well as economically depressed. Even though Milosevic has gone, he has left behind him a legacy of destruction and distrust. The mechanisms, instruments, and models of international relations that provide a framework for producing security and promoting development such as creation of alliances, diplomacy, and models of security communities, did not produce the expected results. Therefore, a high potential for renewed conflict remains acute. one of the main reasons that Western Powers adopted a reluctant attitude towards the Balkans crises, or did too little too late, was misunderstanding the nature and the origin of the conflicts from the beginning. Without knowing where the region is coming from, it is impossible to construct where the region should be heading. This thesis outlines a brief history of the region that provides the context for the current situation. It demonstrates the impact of ethnicity, religion, language, culture, and economics in shaping the conflicts in the Balkans. Furthermore, it analyzes the current security and economic situation in the region. Finally, it provides some security and economic recommendations, which offer guidelines for implementing what the author considers the right path for De-Balkanizing the Balkans.
| Author | : Jeffrey Simon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 4 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Balkan Peninsula |
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Many of the recent Balkan conflicts have been temporarily halted through emergency crisis-resolution actions. These emergency actions, though, have not focused on the interrelated sources of these conflicts, and have not thus far led to a real, lasting regional solution. The European Union (EU) and West European Union (WEU) remain "blind" to many of the region's countries and their problems. Unfortunately, some of the actions these organizations have taken may have had a negative effect on the region's stability. Regional expectations about what NATO (and the United States) can actually achieve far exceed NATO's collective will, political-military capacities and the realities of the United States' limits. Yet, almost all attention has been focused upon NATO intervention. Hence, regional expectations are likely to remain unfulfilled with adverse implications for NATO's prestige and U.S. influence.
| Author | : Rusko Matuli? |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1493190784 |
| Author | : Damir Marusic |
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| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2017-11-28 |
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| ISBN | : 9781619773844 |
| Author | : Vladimir Vučković |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Balkan Peninsula |
| ISBN | : 9783631746035 |
The main theme of this book revolves around the idea of Europeanization of the Western Balkans. In that respect, the volume discusses the fight against corruption and regional relations in former Yugoslav states, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. The objective of the book is to detect the level of effectiveness of the EU impact on domestic structural changes in the Western Balkans regarding aforementioned research issues. The contributors argue that the EU impact in the Western Balkans has so far been limited and point to limitations in this regard. «The book Balkanizing Europeanisation offers timely, detailed, critical and excellently researched insight into the complicated mutual relations of the EU and the countries of the Balkan Peninsula. Based on excellent scholarship, meticulous original research and first-hand experience with the Balkan area, the authors provide a reader with rich and profound analysis of successes and failures of Europeanisation of the Balkan countries. The volume shall become an obligatory reading for many categories of scholars, experts, and people practicing diplomacy with and in the region.» Vít Hlousek, Professor of European Politics, Masaryk University «The limits to and problems connected with processes of Europeanization in the Western Balkans remain an important topic both for policy-makers and for scholarly inquiry. Vučkovic and Đorđevic are to be congratulated for having assembled a first-rate teach of scholars to examine the most vital issues at hand.» Sabrina P. Ramet, Professor of Political Science, The Norwegian University of Science & Technology
| Author | : Dorian Jano |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 15 |
| Release | : 2008 |
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The paper will focus on the trajectories the Western Balkans went after '90s, moving from a Balkanizations paradigm towards an Europeanization one. Although it is acknowledged that the transformations have been sometimes running in parallel and that there is no clear-cut of when a process ends and when the other starts, I will propose - for analytical reasons - three main stages to look at the Western Balkans; that of nation- and state-building (the 'last Balkanization'), the (delay) transition and the (pre-) Europeanization process, conceptualizing so the many transformations in the region as 'multiple stages'. What this categorization in separate stages can be of use is to suggest which of the processes has been dominant at a certain moment and what characteristics and causalities can be attach to each of them. In the first part I investigate what I will call the 'last Balkanization' stage, a period that is characterized by nation and state building process with its main problems being the dissolution and disorder in the Western Balkans. Here I take a path-dependency approach arguing that the old-type of state-citizens relations are the main reason that led these countries towards disorder and dissolution. As a next stage I speak of a 'delay transition' that the Western Balkans experienced (at least in comparison with CEECs) this is partly because of the different modes of communism the two regions experienced and partly because of political elites' role. Here I argue that the Western Balkan has suffered from an institutional incapacity impeding them to build a liberal democracy and be oriented toward a market economy. As the last part I will focus on the 'pre-Europeanization' stage that the Western Balkans has entered where institution and policy reforming (adapting to EU) is and will be the consequence of the conditionality resulting from the EU association and accession perspective of these countries.
| Author | : Andrew J. Pierre |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 20 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Balkan Peninsula |
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| Author | : Liridona Veliu Ashiku |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022 |
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The aim of this thesis is to explore how 'balkanization' underpins policies of the EU and NATO towards the (Western) Balkans. As a discourse which mediates between the Euro-Atlantic processes of the (Western) Balkans as foreign policy on one hand and the identity of the (Western) Balkans on the other, 'balkanization' constructs a disintegrated (Western) Balkan 'other' who stands juxtapositionally to the Western 'self'. By asking the central question - How does 'balkanization' shape the Euro-Atlantic processes of the (Western) Balkans, and vice versa? - this thesis expands on an understanding of EU and NATO policies towards the (Western) Balkans as shaping and being shaped by ideas of 'selves' and 'others'. This dissertation relies on a poststructuralist theory and method of identity and foreign policy for bringing out the empirical complexity of identity construction. It presents with an analysis of texts from the West and the (Western) Balkans. Though the main period under study covers post-Yugoslav events from (North) Macedonia's independence in 1991 to its change of name in 2018, the discourse is traced genealogically back to its World War I roots, showing in this way how current Euro-Atlantic processes are underpinned by older articulations of identity. The analysis focuses on two (Western) Balkan countries: (North) Macedonia and Serbia. This dissertation shows how EU and NATO policies towards the (Western) Balkans being underpinned by 'balkanization' have emerged from and led to the constant reinvention of the unity of the West through 'balkanizing' the (Western) Balkans. The study further illustrates how this dynamic is maintained by and instrumentalized for the political elites. It argues that the Euro-Atlantic processes of the (Western) Balkans though seemingly aimed at uprooting them from their shameful past into a brighter future within the EU and NATO, instead trap the (Western) Balkans into old articulations of their identity as 'balkanized' for this serves the united West and the political elites.
| Author | : Ion Grumeza |
| Publisher | : University Press of America |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0761851348 |
"Balkanization" is a modern term describing the fragmentation and re-division of countries and nations in the Balkan Peninsula, as well as a dynamic meaning "the Balkan way of doing things." The Roots of Balkanization describes the historical changes that took place in the Balkan Peninsula after the collapse of the Roman Empire and their impact in Eastern lands. It develops conclusions reached in the author's previous book, Dacia: Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe, covering 500 B.C.-A.D. 500. Balkan multi-ethnicity was formed after the fifth century, when barbarian invaders settled and violently mixed with the native ancient nations. By the use of sword and terror, warlords became kings and their confederations of tribes became state nations. New societies emerged under the blessing of the Orthodox Church, only to fight against each other over disputed land that eventually came to be occupied by other invaders. The involvement of western powers and the Ottoman expansion triggered more grievances and violence, culminating with the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the end of the Byzantine Empire. The medieval culture of the Balkans survived and continues to play a major role in how business and political life is conducted today in Eastern Europe. Book jacket.
| Author | : Morton Abramowitz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Balkan Peninsula |
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Today, more than fifteen years after the end of the wars that accompanied Yugoslavia's dissolution, the "Balkan question" remains more than ever a "European question". In the eyes of many Europeans in the 1990s, Bosnia was the symbol of a collective failure, while Kosovo later became a catalyst for an emerging Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). In the last decade, however, the overall thrust of the EU's Balkans policy has moved from an agenda dominated by security issues related to the war and its legacies to one focused on the perspective of the Western Balkan states' accession to the European Union. This Chaillot Paper, which features contributions from authors from various parts of the region, examines the current state of play in the countries of the Western Balkans with regard to EU accession. It brings together both views from the Balkans states themselves and overarching thematic perspectives. For the first time the European Union has become involved in the formation of new nation-states that also aspire to become members of the Union. The EU's transformative power has proved effective in integrating established states; now it is confronted with the challenge of integrating new and sometimes contested states. Against this background, this paper makes the case for a concerted regional approach to EU enlargement, and a renewed and sustained commitment to the European integration of the Western Balkans.
