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European Integration and Security in South Eastern Europe

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This paper examines the influence of regional integration on Albanian ethno-nationalism in South Eastern Europe. Τhe process of European regional integration has created new opportunities and outlets for ethno-nationalists to forward their maximal goals by alternative political and non-political means. We explore the impact of European regional integration on the transformation of Albanian ethno-nationalism based on the analysis of three major geo strategic variables: the development of regional political networks, extremist/terrorist networks, and population movements. The analysis suggests that the process of European regional integration influences the formation of alternative ethno-nationalist manifestations and determines the strategies of ethno-political actors to a considerable degree.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Malevski (2002, Issue. 1, p. 5).

  2. 2.

    Keating (2003).

  3. 3.

    Krastev (2002, p. 1).

  4. 4.

    Comelli et al. (2006, p. 2).

  5. 5.

    Ibid., p. 14.

  6. 6.

    Gropas (2006, p. 13).

  7. 7.

    Ibid., p. 34.

  8. 8.

    Csergo and Goldgeier (2006, p. 275).

  9. 9.

    Keating (2003, p. 2).

  10. 10.

    Ibid., p. 2.

  11. 11.

    Csergo and Goldgeier (2006, p. 272).

  12. 12.

    Ibid., p. 272.

  13. 13.

    Ibid., p. 272.

  14. 14.

    Since 1990, Hungarian governments have established a whole range of institutions (governmental agencies and government-sponsored foundations) that link Hungarians living in the neighboring countries to Hungary and encourage them to remain Hungarian ‘in their homeland’: i.e., to withstand assimilation and remain members of the Hungarian nation where they are instead of moving to Hungary. See: Csergo and Goldgeier (2006, p. 284).

  15. 15.

    Ibid, p. 297.

  16. 16.

    Anagnostou and Triandaffylidou (2004, p. 16).

  17. 17.

    Ibid., p. 15.

  18. 18.

    Ibid., p. 17.

  19. 19.

    Ibid., p. 20.

  20. 20.

    Gavrilis (2003)

  21. 21.

    Vickers (2008, p. 11).

  22. 22.

    Pettifer (2002, p. 8).

  23. 23.

    See: The Platform of the Albanian Unity Front, at the First National Convention of the Albanian Unity Front, Tirana, (2002), Translated by Tahir Veliu and Sefedin Muqaj. Available at: http://www.kosovamail.com/index-aquil.php?action=full-index.

  24. 24.

    Ibid.

  25. 25.

    ICG Europe Report No 153, 2004, pp. 12–13.

  26. 26.

    Ibid., pp. 12–13.

  27. 27.

    Krastev (2002, p. 46).

  28. 28.

    US Agency for International Development, “Southern Serbia: Sowing Seeds of Change: A USAID Case Study in Mitigating Conflict,” December 12, 2002 Available at: http://www.usaid.gov/regions/europe_eurasia/press/southern_serbia12122002.html.

  29. 29.

    BBC News (2000).

  30. 30.

    Daskalovski (2007).

  31. 31.

    National Security Advisor (2006).

  32. 32.

    ICG Balkans (2004).

  33. 33.

    Balalovska (2004, p. 3).

  34. 34.

    Lyubov and Gurr (2006).

  35. 35.

    Ibid.

  36. 36.

    “FYROM: Armed Albanians terrorizing Macedonians in Tetovo”, BBC Monitoring Europe, 18 February 2003; “Albanian National Army reportedly recruiting in Macedonian crisis regions”, BBC Worldwide Monitoring, Dnevnik, 22 February 2003:1; “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Post-Conflict Confidence Building: Programme Report”, International Legal Alliances, 2002: 1–39. Available at: http://www.microjustice4all.org/site/dmdocuments/program/1Eng.Work%20MJ4All%201997-2005%20West.%20Balkan.pdf.

  37. 37.

    Mite (2007).

  38. 38.

    BBC News (2010).

  39. 39.

    Collaku (2011).

  40. 40.

    Ibid.

  41. 41.

    Deliso (2007) and Vickers (2008).

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Koktsidis, P.I. (2016). European Integration and Security in South Eastern Europe. In: Katsikides, S., Hanappi, H. (eds) Society and Economics in Europe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21431-3_10

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