SECURITY DIMENSION OF OPEN BALKANS: CONTEMPORARY SECURITY CHALLENGES AS A CHANCE FOR REGIONAL SECURITY PLATFORM

Year 2024, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 1 - 13, 19.08.2024

Marjan Gjurovski Mitko Arnaudov

Abstract

The Open Balkans initiative primarily is focused on the cooperation within the economic framework between participating actors. But, bearing in mind reached declarations between Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia related to the cooperation in the fields of security, there are no doubts that this initiative also could provide a contribution in the regional security infrastructure, at this moment between participating states, but later also within the whole Western Balkans region. Leading research question of this paper is whether Open Balkans, as an initiative with pre-dominant economic sign, could also contribute in the process of creation regional security sustainability from the contemporary security threats angle. From the theoretical point of view, contribution of this paper is foreseen in the context of analysis how much regional cooperation in the field of security could contribute in wider security infrastructure. Primarily the research would be focused on the so-called soft-threats, which do not include "traditional" security threats such as territorial integrity, possibilities of foreign aggression, as well as traditional ways of war.

Keywords

Open Balkans, security cooperation, contemporary security threats

AÇIK BALKANLARIN GÜVENLİK BOYUTU: BÖLGESEL GÜVENLİK PLATFORMU İÇİN BİR ŞANS OLARAK GÜNCEL GÜVENLİK ZORLUKLARI

Abstract

Açık Balkanlar girişimi öncelikle katılımcı aktörler arasındaki ekonomik çerçeve içindeki işbirliğine odaklanıyor. Ancak Arnavutluk, Kuzey Makedonya ve Sırbistan arasında güvenlik alanlarında işbirliğine ilişkin varılan deklarasyonlar göz önüne alındığında, bu girişimin şu anda katılımcı devletler arasında bölgesel güvenlik altyapısına da katkı sağlayabileceği konusunda hiçbir şüphe yok. daha sonra tüm Batı Balkanlar bölgesinde de. Bu makalenin önde gelen araştırma sorusu, ağırlıklı olarak ekonomik göstergeye sahip bir girişim olarak Açık Balkanlar'ın, çağdaş güvenlik tehditleri açısından bölgesel güvenlik sürdürülebilirliği yaratma sürecine de katkıda bulunup bulunamayacağıdır. Teorik açıdan bakıldığında bu makalenin, güvenlik alanında bölgesel işbirliğinin daha geniş güvenlik altyapısına ne kadar katkıda bulunabileceği analizi bağlamında katkısı öngörülmektedir. Araştırma öncelikle toprak bütünlüğü, yabancı saldırganlık olasılıkları ve geleneksel savaş yöntemleri gibi "geleneksel" güvenlik tehditlerini içermeyen sözde yumuşak tehditler üzerinde yoğunlaşacak.

Keywords

Açık Balkanlar, güvenlik işbirliği, çağdaş güvenlik tehditleri

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