MONTENEGRO 2003: A Marriage of Inconvenience (ICG Balkans Report N°142)
MONTENEGRO 2003: A Marriage of Inconvenience (ICG Balkans Report N°142)

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Subject(s): Governance, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: ICG International Crisis Group
Summary/Abstract: It is time for new policies and new approaches on Montenegro. International engagement with that republic in recent years has brought significant positive results. It bolstered the pro-Western government of Djukanovic when it faced the threat from Milosevic. It has helped promote reforms that have set Montenegro on the way to becoming a modern democracy, with a market economy and an independent, effective criminal justice system. However, efforts to promote regional stability have been hampered by an unnecessary obsession with keeping Montenegro and Serbia in a single state. The international community’s overriding interest in the region should be to find stable, long-term solutions. Cobbling together interim solutions that lack legitimacy for those who must implement them and that are unlikely, therefore, to be functional in practice, is not the way to build stability.

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