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The book is dedicated to the challenges facing the Balkans at the beginning of the new decade of 21st century and examines both their development so far and emerging trends in the short and the long term. The book offers a serious academic analysis of the processes taking place in the region in the context of increasingly complicated international relations and transition from one crisis to another. The European integration and enlargement of NATO with their achievements and problems in the European Southeast are also taken into account. The monograph presents the leading trends in the development of each of the countries in the region in domestic and foreign policy, highlighting the main priorities in the field of economy, politics and security, as well as existing problems with potential for conflict and instability. Special attention is paid to the influence of external factors on the region. To this end, the monograph includes three chapters showing the place of the Balkan countries in the changing strategy and behavior of the EU, NATO and Russia.

The collection is dedicated to the new challenges before the Balkans. It traces the dynamics of events and processes in and around the region, among which the process of European integration, NATO enlargement, the influence of important external factors, as well as socio-economic and political development in the individual countries. The authors are scholars from the Institute for Balkan studies at the BAS. They discuss many serious problems concerning the Balkans, the migration waves, the complex international situation. (DE-1a)