Izvorni znanstveni članak
Serbia and the Balkans: An Overview of Regional Cooperation
Gyorgy Simon, Jr.
; Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Sažetak
The paper gives an overview of Serbia’s participation in various forms of regional cooperation in the Balkans. This cooperation became especially important in the post-Dayton period. In the case of Serbia, it was pushed back by the Yugoslav war, which led to international sanctions and the 1999 military intervention by NATO. Therefore, Serbia’s full-fledged participation in regional organisations resumed only after the regime change of October 2000. European and Euro-Atlantic orientation constitutes today the principal direction of Serbia’s foreign policy and in this connection the developing regional cooperation in the Balkans, especially in their western part, is a prerequisite for Serbia’s future accession to the EU, which can become possible between 2014 and 2017. Serbia occupies a central place in the Balkan region. Situated at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East, it has experienced the influences of both eastern and western civilisations. Recently, regional cooperation has become a prerequisite for Serbia’s EU accession as an externally determined process with rigorous conditions and increasing expectations. Therefore, in the framework of the present article, an overview of Belgrade’s role in that cooperation will be given.
Ključne riječi
Regional cooperation; Serbia; EU; NATO
Hrčak ID:
58776
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.3.2009.
Posjeta: 913 *