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Southeastern Europe and European Security Architecture

Traditionally the Balkans had no geopolitical centre of their own. Balkan states gravitated towards great powers outside their own geopolitical space. After the end of the Cold War, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, along with the preceding dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, created a security vacuum in the Balkans. Due to wars in former Yugoslavia and to the problems of transition in the region as a whole, the international geo-economic interest in the Balkans has decreased. The incorporation of SEE into a wider security architecture is necessary in order to avert military and non-military threats to the region’ s stability. ‘ Security architecture’ is a concept meaning a set of institutions which fulfill a security function and the arrangement of relations among those institutions. The international community has a sufficient military presence and interest in SEE. Non-military challenges are more difficult to meet. Among the latter, traditional Balkan disputes, new conflicts related to recently acquired national independence, potential points of crisis, and new challenges to security, are included. After the future normalization of relations among SEE countries the current situation of ‘ unstable stability’ could be overcome. One could envisage the inclusion of the SEE region as a whole into a new European Security Architecture.

Southeastern Europe, security issues, stability, European Union

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