| Titre : | War crimes, conditionality and EU integration in the Western Balkans |
| Auteurs : | Judy Batt ; Vojin Dimitrijevic ; Florence Hartmann ; Dejan Jovic ; Tija Memisevic ; Jelena Obradovic-wochnik |
| Type de document : | Electronic document |
| Editeur : | Paris : European Union Institute for Security Studies |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-92-9198-142-7 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : |
Keywords : war crimes; Eu integration; European Union; western balkans; croatia; ICTY; Tudjman; Serbia; Abstract : The Balkans: a European storymight beimaginedas thetitle ofa remakeoftheLars vonTrierfilm Europa, reflectingthefactthat thecountries oftheWestern Balkans experiencedailtheupheavals thatdefined Europe in thetwentieth century. Their history has spanned the spectrumfrom communism toextreme nationalismandmassmurder,from war to European integration and association amongstates. Now, overa decade after the wars that erupted following the breakup oftheformer Yugoslavia, theyface theurgentneed toaddress issues ofmemoryandjustice. Today thechallenge totheEuropean Union, in theBalkans, isto coherentlymodulate itspolicyfrom crisis managementto European integration. Thecountries concerned need to come to termswith thewarcrimes ofthe 1990sandgothrough thepainfulbutessentialprocess ofbreakingfreefrom thestranglehold ofthenationalistideologies thatledtothewars andassume justice, human rights and interstate association astheparadigm ofa new nationalidentity. Thecrimes againsthumanitythatwerecommitted bythe Serbian nationalists but also by Croatian nationalists make theBalkans uniquein relation topastenlargements. Thechange thathas takenplace in theregion may begauged by thedegree to which countries in theBalkans havegradually begun toacceptthe needtodeal withwarcriminals, whether under the auspices of international or domestic courts, as some of the authors ofthis Chaillot Paper show. TheBalkanshave introduced a new and very importantdimension to European conditionality, by expanding theCopenhagen criteria to include full cooperation with theInternational CriminalTribunalfor theFormer Yugoslavia (ICTY). In fact, EUpolicy towards theBalkansispredicatedontheneedtobringaboutthedelegitimisation ofextremenationalistideologies asapre-conditionforEUaccession. This was notrequiredofeitherPortugal orSpain, post-nationalistdemocracies whenthey joinedtheEU, oroftheCentral European states where antisovietnationalism persisted at thetimeofaccession. The conviction was, in the previous waves ofenlargement, that the process ofintegration itself wouldexorcise thedemons ofthepast, dissolve historical enmities andmake reconciliation amongneighbours a naturalconsequence ofEU rnembership. The consciousness ofsharingacommon destiny would ultimately ouercome anddelegitimise extremenationalism. |
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