CIAO DATE: 05/2008

Multiethnic State, Ethnically Homogeneous State - Paper for the 3rd Workshop of the Study Group "Crisis Management in South East Europe"

May 2001

Austrian National Defence Academy

Abstract

Approaching and testing the capacity and effectiveness of the nation-states in the Balkans is a long-term research necessity for many reasons: First, despite the tendency of making the state boundaries less and less significant in the era of new information technology, global economy and new communications capabilities the nation-state will remain the key organisational unit of the international system and the features of national sovereignty will continue to dominate and influence the management toolbox of international relations and domestic politics. Hence, any form and nuance of the nation-state in the Balkans will have a decisive meaning for dealing with the political and security agenda of the region.

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