Original scientific paper

AMERICAN POLITICS IN SOUTHEAST EUROPE

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

Abstract

Following the disintegration of the socialist system in Europe and the end of the bloc-based relations, American politics has changed the course of its operation. In present-day circumstances, southeast Europe is becoming increasingly prominent in American foreign-policy projections, particularly during Clinton’s administration. Clinton has defined a clear-cut policy towards Europe’s southeast due to its vicinity to certain neuralgic points of American engagement (Near East, the Caspian region, the Gulf, eastern Mediterranean). In this way American politics has proved its leading global role. At the time of scarcity of foreign-policy events, Clinton’s team has thus been served on a platter a major foreign-policy arena, in which its engagement — which has all the symptoms of a long-lasting one — has not proved too costly.

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Hrčak ID:

32204

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/32204

Publication date:

6.12.1998.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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