A Security Community in the Balkans?
A Security Community in the Balkans?

Summary/Abstract: The foreign policies of the post-Yugoslav states have changed fundamentally in the last 15 years. We argue that we can observe the creation of a security community in the former Yugoslavia, in which serious conflicts between post-Yugoslav states become not only unlikely, but literally impossible. While this security community is still in the process of construction, we identify internal democratization and the influence of the EU as the key driving forces behind this change of foreign policies and the move towards a security community. In the first part we discuss the theoretical literature on security communities and their establishment, before applying our methodological framework to the post-Yugoslav states. We conclude by arguing that further study of the foreign policies of the post-Yugoslav states is necessary to make further assessments about long-term developments and patterns in foreign policy behavior.

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