Original scientific paper

SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: INSTABILITIES AND STRATEGY OF LINKAGE

Radovan Vukadinović ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In the first part of the article, the author analyses the latest dimensions of security on the territory of the former Yugoslavia stemming from the Dayton and Paris accords. His starting point is the geographical criterion which produces five trouble spots which may jeopardize the process of security-building. He concludes that only a determined application of political, diplomatic and economic pressures, as well as military presence, may bring about a new dimension of security in southeastern Europe. The second part of the article gives a review of the analyses of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the creation of new states in this part of Europe, as well as of the concepts and schemes for a certain degree of linkage and bringing together, the most prominent of which is the American initiative for the co-operation in southeastern Europe. It is obvious that this region will go on being viewed through different lenses and that the interests of the observers, more than those of the peoples living in this part of Europe, will get precedence.

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Hrčak ID:

105666

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/105666

Publication date:

18.11.1997.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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