The Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the Implications of Kosovo-Serbia Tensions for the Regional Security
The Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the Implications of Kosovo-Serbia Tensions for the Regional Security

Summary/Abstract: The Western Balkans is an area of discontinuity in terms of European integration, the state of the affairs representing a direct effect of the civil war that led to the collapse of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The concerns about the Balkan geopolitical climate dominate the last decade of the 20th century, with the humanitarian implications that exacerbated nationalism episodes brought to the forefront, at a time when the Communist regimes were already gone, and the Euro-Atlantic integration was the goal the main post-revolutionary agenda at the East. The study case follows the security impact that the of Kosovo-Serbia binomial has, the first being the province that later became a self-governing state, at the periphery of European construction, but with the security guaranteed by NATO's permanent mission on site. The specificity of the developments between Belgrade and Pristina is one of the issues to be considered when analyzing the European paradigm on the medium and long-term developments of the region is debated. At a time when European actors continue to develop a common identity based on secular European ideas, Kosovo is one of the exceptions that come to confirm the rule. Therefore, European integration must be doubled by redrawing intra-regional relations, with the aim of reconciling and normalizing relations.On the other hand, the phenomenology in Yugoslavia is a complex one, practically distinguishing an overlapping of processes: the fall of communism, the collapse of federal statehood, territorial secessionism among the hereditary republics, and then a civil war between the former Yugoslavia. From a historical perspective, the Balkan space is one of the most animated spaces of the nationalist movements, movements on the basis of which we have paradoxical processes: the formation of the state entity after the First World War, and its disintegration with the end of the Cold War.

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