The peace-building efforts of the European Union in the Western Balkans: The cases of Macedonia and Kosovo

This paper is written in the belief that the European Union uses different instruments in order to maintain a permanent peace environment in the post-conflict regions. To answer the question of what those instruments are, we begin by taking a closer look at Macedonia and Kosovo cases which clarify t...

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Published in:Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü dergisi 2019-06, Vol.21 (2), p.517-531
Main Authors: Ağır,Bülent Sarper, Arman,Murat Necip, Akçay,Ekrem Yaşar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agreements
Avrupa Birliği
Barış İnşası
Felsefe & Psikoloji & Sosyoloji
Hukuk
İstikrar ve Ortaklık Anlaşmaları
İstikrar ve Ortaklık Süreci
Kosova
Kosovo
Macedonia
Makedonya
Maliye & Muhasebe & Vergi
Peace
Peace-building
Siyasal Bilimler
Stabilization and Association Agreements
Stabilization and Association Process
Tarih
the European Union
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Summary:This paper is written in the belief that the European Union uses different instruments in order to maintain a permanent peace environment in the post-conflict regions. To answer the question of what those instruments are, we begin by taking a closer look at Macedonia and Kosovo cases which clarify the peace-building conception of the Union. In accordance with the aims of this study, the concept of human security will be regarded to mean a circumstance that the European Union has officially recognized as a basic policy to evaluate the peace-building instruments. The major instrument that the European Union uses at the nation and state building processes of post-conflict regions is the Stabilization and Association Process. Under that process, the European Union signed several agreements with the Western Balkans countries known as Stabilization and Association Agreements. We found a significant correlation between Stabilization and Association Agreements and the reconstruction of the Western Balkan countries’ economic and political conditions, which have gained their independency after the disunification of Yugoslavia but experienced serious state-building problems. These consequences of the Stabilization and Association Agreements with Macedonia and Kosovo complement each other and help to illuminate the phenomenon of the success of Stabilization and Association Process of the European Union
ISSN:1302-3284
1308-0911
DOI:10.16953/deusosbil.447043