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South-East Europe's EU Integration: Dreams and Realities

This article is about the vision and prospects of EU enlargement towards south-eastern Europe. It analyzes the relationship between ethnic and cultural diversity and democratic consolidation in south-east Europe as a means for European Integration. It also focuses on issues of inter-ethnic reconciliation after the turmoil of the last decade of the 20th century. The article points to the history of south-east Europe region, especially in the last century, as being one of failed reconciliation. The fundamental challenge presented to the project of a free and larger Europe is henceforth the initial need to escape the cycle of violence that has dominated the region’s history since the crumbling of the Hapsburg and the Ottoman empires, which has both historic and strategic implications for meaningful multilateral cooperation.