The Western Balkans Between Balkanization and Integration: Contemporary Problems of the Region

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Pages: 219-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/ZNVL2410

Abstract:

At the beginning of the 21st century, two parallel and opposing processes took place – integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures and Balkanization. They are the result of the desire of the countries in the region to improve their socio-economic development and the ambition of some of them to strengthen their recently found identity. Along with this, a number of typical regional problems will determine the future of the countries in the long term. The lost identity of the people leads to internal weakness, the influence of external factors, unemployment, decreasing birth rate, quality of education, and emigration – these are some of the problems which have their specifics in the region and are of interest to the present research.

Keywords:

the Western Balkans; integration; socio-economic development; education; emigration

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