International studies, Vol. XI No. 1, 2011.
Conference paper
Positive Vibrations in the Region of Southeast Europe
Mile Lasić
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
The author pledges for the accession of the entire region of Southeast Europe to NATO, arguing that this is a key precondition for the accession to a regional organization, which truly produces good vibrations throughout Europe and the world - the European Union.
The author shows how the EU brings peace and high civilization standards to the region. The European Uni on, namely, is a 'peace project', it produces security already due to the fact that it represents 'something between' a supranational and an interstate form of organization of sovereign states, which is a sui generis creation, whose strength is contained in what, at first glance, appears as its weakness - the phenomenon of divisible and transferable sovereignty and, consequentially, a complex form of 'governance beyond national s tate'. Besides, it also represents a new form of political culture - a culture of dialogue and compromise. This 'lobbying' for accession of West Balkan countries to the European Union stems from realizing that, through this trans-ethnic, regional, and European accession, they would solve, both short- and long-term, their own and mutual problems, which could not be the case without the 'umbrella' called the EU.
Keywords
complicated correlation between NATO and the European Union; NATO membership as precondition for EU membership; 'EUisation' v. 'europeisation'; regional cooperation as precondition for security in Southeast Europe and accession to the EU
Hrčak ID:
291600
URI
Publication date:
31.5.2011.
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