Suchergebnisse

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.