Federalism in the Balkans: Projects and Realities
Journal Title: Codrul Cosminului - Year 2014, Vol 20, Issue 2
Abstract
The Balkans are known, throughout their history and especially in modern times, for their divisiveness, conflicts and wars. There was, however, another side to the story – since the late 18th Century different projects were launched to achieve their political unity in some form of con/federation. Such projects were proposed by the Balkan national leaders, and suggested by foreign politicians and observers of the region affairs. A number of steps had been made to achieve that, which, as a rule, did not go beyond preparation and planning phase. The principal flaw of the moves in that direction was that they envisaged dominant position of one or another nation in an eventual Balkan union. That was more or less pre-sent in the only practical, and partial, implementation of that idea in the case with former Yugoslavia, and that also was one of the reasons why that this federation had finally col-lapsed. But is the idea of regional unity a mere utopia now dead and buried once and for all? People who still wish cessation of eternal conflicts and achieving unity now pin their hopes on integrated and unified Europe.
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Roumen Genov
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