Review article
https://doi.org/10.2478/aet-2019-0004
Western Balkan : „Divide Et Impera “ – Or Why Opposed Interests Of The Great Powers Generated Permanent Instability Of The Region
Jadranka Polović
; Libertas međunarodno sveučilište
Jadranka Dujić Frlan
; Zagrebačka županija
Abstract
After almost three decades of governance from above or application of different concepts and strategies of the West in the mantra of euro perspective – Western Balkan is again in focus of the international public. Instead of targeted Europeanization, we are witnessing the further Balkanization of the region as a result of the unsuccessful action of the European Union, as well as the conflicting interests of allies – the US, NATO, the United Kingdom, the EU and Germany. Such a constellation of relations made it possible to strengthen the influence of several non-Western actors – Russia, Turkey, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, whose presence has for many years strongly shaped the security atmosphere in the Western Balkans. It is increasingly evident that the Anglo-American project of post-Cold War landscaping of the former Yugoslavia has worn off significantly. Namely, the promised prosperity and stability of the region are missing, and the legacy of applied western policies is extreme poverty, extreme unemployment and emigration, the collapse of public policies and continued economic collapse, as well as the re-activation of existing crisis areas: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia.
Keywords
Western Balkans; EU enlargement policy; Europeanization; geopolitics; non-Western actors
Hrčak ID:
231941
URI
Publication date:
16.12.2019.
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