Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 05/2008

The Interdependency between National Economic Performance and National Security - Case Studies in the Region of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Peter Trost

October 2002

Austrian National Defence Academy

Abstract

In the following study, Peter Trost analyses the strong interdependencies between economic and security-political factors in a conflict region, specifically focusing on the influence of economical reasons for the break-up of Former Yugoslavia. This is especially interesting as most studies tend to focus on the political aspects rather than concentrating on questions of economy when dealing with the disintegration processes leading to the destruction of the Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.