THE COMMUNITY RELATION BETWEEN WESTERN BALKANS AND EU. REALITIES AND PROSPECTS OF THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE AREA
THE COMMUNITY RELATION BETWEEN WESTERN BALKANS AND EU. REALITIES AND PROSPECTS OF THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE AREA

Summary/Abstract: Europe is engaged in a project to change the physiognomy and to transform the Balkans. If, until yesterday, this region was primarily a place of war of all against all, today Balkans are very close to becoming a security community, where war is almost unimaginable. European effort to redevelop the Balkans cannot be justified only in ethnic plan as it is not only pure Wilsonian idealism, but it is a necessary and pragmatic response, derived from a security imperative. For over a decade one could see community Europe actively involved in this region, not only at military level but also at civilian level in building government structures and institutions that provide state functionality, and in expanding the rule of law and a state governed by the law. The recipe is to export stability not to import instability. This is a formula that aims to create well-governed states in an area of divided societies and institutional fragility. European Union's role becomes almost that of a creator of order, through the process of naturalization of fundamental values and European institutions: the rule of law and multi-ethnic democracy.

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