Abstract:

The end of the Kosovo crisis has given way to an international will to stabilize and rebuild the Balkans. Now the challenges involved in these two processes diverge on many points and could easily ignore the local realities of the countries in the region. The Balkan Stability Pact, which encompasses all the international initiatives taken on behalf of Southeastern Europe and which aims to reconstitute sub-regions, may also become an additional initiative without any real impact. Yet in the Balkan countries it represents a half-open door to the European Union. Moreover, the reconstruction that has been announced is tending towards a fragmented approach, given the specific features of each country concerned. New cases of destabilization may result from this discrepancy between reconstitution and break-up.

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