The growing economic, security, political, cultural and information inter-dependence brought about by the process of globalisation, along with the end of the Cold War, which, while it lasted, provided stability for a number of states, gave rise to many new questions. What is the relationship between globalisation and the state? Does globalisation promote state-building or state-dissolution? What international mechanisms are available to support the building of new states?
Summary:
The issue opens with two texts dealing with the influence of globalisation on the autonomy and functional capacity of the state. The next two papers deal with the building of new states in the conditions of globalisation.
Dejan Pavlović examines the inter-dependence between international law and international politics in the process of state building, particularly the role of international law as an instrument for the improvement of quality of democratic institutions in the so-called weak states.
The texts of Marko Kovačević and Miruna Troncota look at the regional dynamics of state-building, focusing on the role of the European Union as an external actor in the Western Balkans. The last two texts in this issue deal even more directly with the problem of post-Yugoslav state-building.
Contents:
Filip Ejdus, Svetlana Đurđević-Lukić
Western Balkans Security Observer, 6(21), pp. 1-5
Nikola Lakić
Western Balkans Security Observer, 6(21), pp. 6-17.
Nikola Jović
Western Balkans Security Observer, 6(21), pp. 18-29.
Mladen Stojadinović
Western Balkans Security Observer, 6(21), pp. 30-41.
Dejan Pavlović
Western Balkans Security Observer, 6(21), pp. 42-51.
Marko Kovačević
Western Balkans Security Observer, 6(21), pp. 52-63.
Miruna Troncotă
Western Balkans Security Observer, 6(21), pp. 64-90.
Marko Žilović
Western Balkans Security Observer, 6(21), pp. 91-103.
Zoran Čirjaković
Western Balkans Security Observer, 6(21), pp. 104-115.