THE PEACE-BUILDING EFFORTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE WESTERN BALKANS: THE CASES OF MACEDONIA AND KOSOVO

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Peace-building,Macedonia,Kosovo,the European Union,Stabilization and Association Process,Stabilization and Association Agreements

BATI BALKANLAR’DA AVRUPA BİRLİĞİ’NİN BARIŞ-İNŞA ÇABALARI: MAKEDONYA VE KOSOVA ÖRNEKLERİ

Abstract

Bu makale, Avrupa Birliği’nin çatışma sonrası bölgelerde kalıcı bir barış ortamı sağlamak için farklı araçlar kullandığı inancıyla yazılmıştır. Bu araçların ne olduğu sorusuna cevap vermek için, Makedonya ve Kosova örneklerine daha yakından bakarak başlıyoruz. Bu iki örnek, Birliğin barış inşası anlayışına açıklık getirebilecektir. Bu makalenin amaçları doğrultusunda, insan güvenliği kavramı, Avrupa Birliği’nin barış inşası için kullandığı araçları değerlendirmek için resmi bir politika olarak resmen tanındığı bir durum anlamına gelecektir. Avrupa Birliği’nin çatışma sonrası bölgelerin ulus ve devlet inşası süreçlerinde kullandığı başlıca araç İstikrar ve Ortaklık Süreci’dir. Bu süreçte Avrupa Birliği, Batı Balkanlar’daki ülkeler ile İstikrar ve Ortaklık Anlaşması olarak adlandırılan çeşitli anlaşmalar imzalamıştır. Biz İstikrar ve Ortaklık Anlaşmaları ile Yugoslavya’nın dağılmasından sonra bağımsızlıklarını kazanmış, ancak ciddi devlet-inşa problemleri yaşayan Balkan Devletleri’nin ekonomik ve politik koşulların yeniden yapılandırılması arasında anlamlı bir ilişki bulduk. Makedonya ve Kosova ile İstikrar ve Ortaklık Anlaşmaları’nın bu sonuçları birbirini tamamlar ve Avrupa Birliği’nin İstikrar ve Ortaklık Süreci’nin başarısını aydınlatmaya yardımcı olacak niteliktedir.

Keywords

• Makedonya,Kosova,Avrupa Birliği,İstikrar ve Ortaklık Süreci,İstikrar ve Ortaklık Anlaşmaları,Barış İnşası,İstikrar ve Ortaklık Anlaşmaları

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