Searching for the Sustainable Security Cooperation Model and Spreading of Security Culture in the Western Balkans
Searching for the Sustainable Security Cooperation Model and Spreading of Security Culture in the Western Balkans

Summary/Abstract: The concept of regionalization as a new paradigm can verify the ability and capability of the countries to cooperate and participate at the international relations in many fields (politics, economy, security, etc.) within the region and beyond. Well established and efficient regional security cooperation can be described as an important precondition for development of the region, especially for the post-conflict one such as it is the case of Western Balkans. The aim of this article is to examine so far initiated and developed security cooperation model that was built in last two decades, and to discover its advantages and disadvantages. In that sense, here is discussed a theoretical framework of the most wanted models for security cooperation („security community“ and „regional partnership“) and explained how community of the Western Balkans is functioning in practice. Also, the purpose is to stress how important is the concept of security culture with it’s specificity for stabile security cooperation in the Western Balkans. Methodological tools that have been used in the article are analysis and synthesis method as well as the method of description of current circumstances and assumptions about theoretical and practical aspects of searching for sustainable security cooperation model and spreading of security culture in the Western Balkans.

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