The Balkans – A Perpetual Geopolitical Powder Keg
The Balkans – A Perpetual Geopolitical Powder Keg
Unresolved Nationalist Tensions in the Post-Yugoslav Balkans Pose an Enduring Threat to Peace and Stability
Introduction
The Southeastern European region known as the Balkans has rightly earned itself an infamous reputation as being something of the perpetually ticking geopolitical time bomb of the European continent – a restless region seemingly doomed by fate to never achieve lasting stability or reconciliation amongst its jostling mosaic mix of contentious ethnicities perpetually struggling for dominance over the same lands they’ve inhabited together for centuries.