1st Edition

Border Security in the Balkans Europe Gatekeepers

By Alice Hills Copyright 2005
92 Pages
by Routledge

92 Pages
by Routledge

92 Pages
by Routledge

Borders dominate the security agenda in South-east Europe. Political and ethnic discontents focus on disputed borders, while traffickers in migrants and drugs ignore them.The EU argues that the Balkan countries should develop models of border management using its policing standards, but the region is rife with corruption and its border guards are both under-resourced and ineffective. This Paper... Read more
Introduction, 1 Assumptions,principles and strategy, 2 Bosnia Herzegovina and Slovenia, 3 Macedonia and Albana, 4 Regional Trends and realities.

Biography

Alice Hills (Leeds University, UK) (Author)