Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Since the end of the 1990s, Albanians in North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia have submitted to a regime of political and economic austerity in return for access to the European Union.The heavy costs, from economic decline, deadly pollution, and political corruption have translated into years of frustrations.These frustrations have exposed a political failure that extends from the region to the United States and Brussels.The resulting political turmoil will soon turn violent as the global economic downturn puts strains on Albanians sliding further away from their untrustworthy EU/U.S. allies.These afflicted relations may also highlight enduring tensions within the larger NATO alliance as American unilateralism continues to strain the divergent interests of key European partners.Following the objections they face, the presidential initiative of Thaçi and Vučić for land swap needs incidents on the ground, new tensions and destabilization of the situation, to proceed.We hold them responsible for the violence that may occur.
Source: Insight Turkey
Author: Isa Blumi
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2946411360