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Biden's Unfinished Balkan Business

Southeast Europe Policy Scholar Gülnur Aybet co-authored an article with Florian Bieber today on The Washington Post's PostGlobal about Vice President Joseph Biden's visit to the Balkans.

Southeast Europe Policy Scholar Gülnur Aybet co-authored an article with Florian Bieber today on The Washington Post's PostGlobal about Vice President Joseph Biden's visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Kosovo. They analyze issues from the region left unfinished from the early 1990s, such as integration into NATO and the EU.

"After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe's integration into Euro-Atlantic institutions was considered essential to democratic governance, free markets and human rights," Aybet and Bieber write.

"NATO and EU enlargement were seen as tandem processes in the grand design of 'Europe whole and free.' The Western Balkans have been struggling to keep up with this process, with only Bulgaria and Romania as members today of both organizations. Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo face a series of inter-linked obstacles to accession, which is why Biden's first visit to the region was confined to those three countries."

Read the full article at washingtonpost.com.

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