European Dimension of the Balkan Crisis
European Dimension of the Balkan Crisis

Summary/Abstract: In this text the Balkan crisis caused by the collapse of the Yugoslav federation is analysed in the international context. The author inquires into the causes of the dissolution of Yugoslavia, which as well demonstrated the crisis of the European union (EU). The basis for both developments is the end of Cold war, although Yugoslavian disintegration also stems from additional internal factors which have been present from the very beginning of this state in 1918. The diagnosis is that the helplessness and discord among European countries vis-à-vis the Balkan war comes, paradoxically, from the excess of power in the EU, which is not adequately aggregated and subjected to a single command. The author concludes that the future outcome of the Balkan war will be ultimately determined by interests and mutual relations of the superpowers USA and Russia.

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