11. Western Balkans’ Horizon 2023 – New uncertainties in a changed geopolitical setting
- Author:
- Vedran Dzihic
- Publication Date:
- 01-2023
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP)
- Abstract:
- “The age of uncertainty” has recently become the most used description for the time we live in. The aggression of Russia against Ukraine and the war approaching now its second year have changed the globe. Global uncertainties and huge geopolitical changes we witness are mirrored in European semiperipheral regions like the Western Balkans. The Western Balkans has been in a limbo for a while with no major progress towards the EU and democracy in general. Instead of steady democratization in the region we witnessed a gradual autocratization, most prominently in Serbia, and constant rise of crisis and tensions.
- Topic:
- European Union, Democracy, Geopolitics, Autocracy, and Russia-Ukraine War
- Political Geography:
- Russia, Europe, Ukraine, and Balkans