Institutionalization of Regional Co-operation in South East Europe – Strategies and Obstacles
Institutionalization of Regional Co-operation in South East Europe – Strategies and Obstacles

Summary/Abstract: South East Europe is the last region in Europe partly waiting in a queue for Euro-Atlantic and European integration. Region is very diverse in a political, economic, cultural, religious and ethnic sense. Regional co-operation is a process of utmost importance because of two reasons: firstly, improving political and economic situation in countries of the region: secondly, preparations and learning for joining the integrations. Regional co-operation is precondition for achieving posed requests and conditions set by NATO and EU. The main problem are imprecisely defined borders and a territory of the region. A bulk of regional initiatives is either launched by regional countries either international community. “Regional ownership” is politically and institutionally weaker, poorly financed and less effective. Internationally initiated are more direct and efficient. Actual situation is imposing a problem of enlargement fatigue as a huge obstacle because of significant lagging in transition and European reforms. One of uncertainties is orientation either to individual or collective assessment. More developed countries are for individual approach, less developed would like to join at the same time. Anyway, the situation demands a lot of reforms in every single country as well as improvement in regional co-operation.

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