Etnički odnosi i sigurnost na Zapadnom Balkanu
Ethnic relations and security in the Western Balkans

Summary/Abstract: Ethnic relations and ethnic conflicts influence the stability and security of many states and regions in the world to a great extent. They influence the image of the current international system and therefore it is very important to discuss the following: how to ensure and implement individual and collective rights of ethnic minorities and, by doing so, accomplish the security for every state? In their efforts to find the answer to this question, institutions of international community are beginning to realize that the rights of ethnic minorities have become a very important segment of human rights, and as such, a prerequsit for security and stability of many states and regions in the world. The issue of ethnic relations and their influence on security is especially important in the context of Western Balkans. States of this region, which is burdened with troubled past and ethnic conflicts, in order to achieve security and stability, have to pay greater attention to the regulation of ethnic relations within their societies and between each other. Achieving full integration within the EU is in the function of accomplishing this goal. Indeed, the desire to join the integration processes, especially with the EU, has encuoraged the regulatiWestern Balkans; national minorities; ethnic relations; ethnicon of ethnic relations, which resulted in more thorough normative framework and better implementation of minority rights.

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