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The Western Balkans: the Need for a New Vision and Strategy
The Western Balkans: the Need for a New Vision and Strategy

Author(s): Miroslav Lajčák
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)

Summary/Abstract: In international circles, Slovakia is branded a successful and dynamic European country; especially in the region of the Western Balkans. In Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as in the entire Western Balkans, Slovakia has a good reputation. It is admired for a peaceful split from former Czechoslovakia and equally for the capacity to solve big national questions by way of political compromise and agreement. The whole of the Western Balkans recognizes Slovakia also in the bigger picture of new EU members’ achievements. And it is increasingly capable of distinguishing in the collective picture

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 47-51
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English