Aid to the Balkans: Addicts and pushers

Kekic, Laza

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“…The sustained aid Bosnia has been receiving since the Dayton Peace Accord of 1995 has made the economy incapable of surviving without ongoing foreign fixes. Early on, Laza Kekic coined the term ‘aid addiction’ to describe Bosnia's economic condition and pointed out that ‘growth regressions indicate that external aid has had a very weak positive impact on the performance of transition countries’ [7, 20]. Ten years after Dayton, the country's unemployment fluctuated between 37 and 40% [2, p. 43].…”

Section: Conditions After the Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Balkans in Transition and the Great Powers

Veremis¹

2008

European View

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Things in the politics of small states are not always what they appear to be. Local agendas may succeed or fail dismally according to their compatibility, or lack of it, with great power priorities. The dissolution of Yugoslavia and the breakaway of its constituent parts are certainly events generated by local actors, but the decision to grant or deny them the status of a state can also be explained by the priorities of extra-regional powers. The dynamic intervention of Russia in the controversy over Kosovo's independence streamlines Russian interests in its 'close neighbours' with the support of international legality. The US sees little intrinsic value in the Balkans and places them in the periphery of the energy-producing Eurasia and the Middle East. Unlike the other two, the EU is a supranational actor with an interest in the stabilisation and development of its own southeastern neighborhood.

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Section: Conditions After the Warmentioning

confidence: 99%