CURRENT TRENDS IN THE RELATION BETWEEN WESTERN BALKAN STATES AND THE EU. AN ANALYSIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LIBERAL REALISM
CURRENT TRENDS IN THE RELATION BETWEEN WESTERN BALKAN STATES AND THE EU. AN ANALYSIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LIBERAL REALISM

Summary/Abstract: In spite the fact that lately European leaders seem to have paid more attention to managing economic and financial crisis’ effects, the relation with the Western Balkans turns out to be still of interest for the EU. The main reason for this is constituted by the interdependency between the stability of the Western Balkan security environment and the one of the European space, interdependency which isn’t at all negligible and is still topical. The consolidation of the relations between Russia and Serbia in the energy area, the continuation of the divergences between the Albanian secessionist movement from Kosovo, on the one hand, and Belgrade, on the other, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s political crisis as well as the violent events which took place in North Kosovo equally emphasize this interdependency. The present paper sets itself to analyze the relation of mutual determination of the security of the two spaces considered from the perspective of liberal realism theories, especially from the one of the Regional Security Complexes, taking into account the most recent events which marked the destiny of Western Balkan states, their relation with the EU and with other actors of the international arena, as well as the relations between them.

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