Security and Diplomacy in the Western Balkans
Security and Diplomacy in the Western Balkans

Author(s): Milan Jazbec
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Security and defense
Published by: IFIMES Mednarodni inštitut za bližnjevzhodne in balkanske študije
Keywords: Security in Europe;
Summary/Abstract: The perspective of the author is that of a government official and diplomat from what Jazbec himself calls “a small country” in the region. But the scope of the book is breathtaking, since it en compasses some of the most sweeping changes emanating from Eastern Europe in the 1990s and analyses international activity in this regard since that time. More to the point, Jazbec focuses on how “a small country” – his country, Slovenia – has made a considerable contribution to the positive forward movement of these developments. As a par ticipant himself in the process, Jazbec provides up-close first hand accounts of how the Slovenians confronted these changes and what they did to assist the international community to deal with them. Milan Jazbec refers to a new “security matrix” in Europe, and, against this background, he traces the emergence of 22 new states from the dissolutions of Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. He highlights the past activities and the future capabilities of multilateral associations, such as OSCE, NATO, the EU and others. And, an entire section of the book on “The West ern Balkans” gives detailed and thoroughly researched analysis of each of the Southeast European states.

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