The Geopolitical and Sociological Aspects of the Transition Process of a Region: From the Balkans Towards South-Eastern Europe
The Geopolitical and Sociological Aspects of the Transition Process of a Region: From the Balkans Towards South-Eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary Balkan region is in the process of transition.The Balkan region has a controversial transition identity, it is at the crossroads torn between retraditionalization and modernization. The future of the Balkans does not lie in retailoring the past and conflicts but in the search for a modern development formula, mutual cooperation and integration with Europe and the world. The Balkan peoples in the 21st century are faced with the necessity to discard the devastating ideological doctrines of blood and land and the blind faith in the omnipotence of weapons and to turn towards the future, to the new strategy based on the fact that only through economic development and democracy they will be able to realize their life interests, their social and cultural progress. The author believes in the possibility and future of the unity of the Balkan peoples on a new development and civilization platform whose very center is the culture of peace, social partnership for development and integration, mutual confidence and the cooperation with the world at large.

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