DEMOCRATIC PEACE IN RELATION TO REGIONAL PEACE AND STABILITY IN THE WESTERN BALKANS

The Paper aims to apply the theory of democratic peace to the context of regional peace and security in the Western Balkans, using both its internal and external components. Due to the importance of regional Democratisation for regional positive peace, as the theory would suggest, the recent democratic backsliding could negatively affect it. We provide a testing and adaptation of the famous the...