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The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe

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Securing Europe

Part of the book series: New Security Challenges Series ((NSECH))

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On 10 June 1999, the day that the United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 1244 mandating intervention in Kosovo was issued, the foreign ministers of the EU, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, the Russian Federation, Slovenia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Turkey, the US, Canada, and Japan met in Cologne, Germany, with representatives from numerous international organizations, to formally endorse the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.1 As an EU initiative, the establishment of the Pact signified a new phase of the EU’s approach to the Balkans. Its earlier approach had been overwhelmingly reactive. It had also responded separately to successive crises in the Western Balkans rather than attempting to stabilize the region as a whole. The EU’s first attempt to remedy these deficiencies with a ‘Regional Approach’ failed to address comprehensively the causes of conflict and to capitalize on the stabilizing potential of the two EU candidate states, Romania and Bulgaria. The Regional Approach was, moreover, uncoordinated with other initiatives and programmes aimed at stabilizing the Balkans, producing overlap and, in some instances, competition. The SP represents an effort to overcome these shortcomings.

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Watanabe, L. (2010). The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. In: Securing Europe. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277021_5

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