Fostering resilience in the Western Balkans
Nechev, Zoran Trauner, Florian
Fostering resilience in the Western Balkans / [Recurso electrónico] PDF .-- : European Union Institute for Security Studies , June 2017 .-- 4 p. .-- ISS Brief ;18 . ;
It has long been assumed that the EU would take the lead in the transformation of the Western Balkans. Yet this assumption is no longer unchallenged. While the EU’s enlargement process seems to have lost momentum, other external players – notably Russia, China, Turkey and the Gulf states – have come to play a more prominent role in the region.
Yet the Western Balkan states do not only face exogenous challenges: most of them are still struggling to consolidate their democratic systems. In its annual country reports, the European Commission has expressed concerns over their ‘backsliding’ with regard to the separation of powers, political interference in the work of the judiciary, and a weak record of fighting high-level political corruption.
978-92-9198-585-2
Unión Europea
Resiliencia Democracia Metodología de análisis Estrategias de seguridad
Países balcánicos
Institute for Security Studies
Fostering resilience in the Western Balkans / [Recurso electrónico] PDF .-- : European Union Institute for Security Studies , June 2017 .-- 4 p. .-- ISS Brief ;18 . ;
It has long been assumed that the EU would take the lead in the transformation of the Western Balkans. Yet this assumption is no longer unchallenged. While the EU’s enlargement process seems to have lost momentum, other external players – notably Russia, China, Turkey and the Gulf states – have come to play a more prominent role in the region.
Yet the Western Balkan states do not only face exogenous challenges: most of them are still struggling to consolidate their democratic systems. In its annual country reports, the European Commission has expressed concerns over their ‘backsliding’ with regard to the separation of powers, political interference in the work of the judiciary, and a weak record of fighting high-level political corruption.
978-92-9198-585-2
Unión Europea
Resiliencia Democracia Metodología de análisis Estrategias de seguridad
Países balcánicos
Institute for Security Studies
