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Acquisitions present one of the possible ways of external growth of enterprises in the time of globalization, which are giving the chance for quickly and effectively adapting to the environment, positioning, competitiveness and attractiveness for investments. Paper is focused on the role of management in acquisition's process of enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is reflected through clear vision, engagement of management in dialogue with employees, analysing of acquisition's process and they way of implementing organizational changes. Good management could improve performance of enterprises, also by large extent, management could affect (un) implementation of merging and unmerging changes through the key functions which are resulting with more successful or worse operations than acquisition's period. Contribution is reflected in providing recommendations to the management for improving success of acquisitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Keywords: management, acquisitions, changes, enterprises, human resources, behaviourism

• Development of computer and communication technology has led to significant technological changes in the functioning of banks, so nowadays we can talk about the creation and development of electronic banking or e-banking. Positive effects of using electronic banking are arising from potential opportunities which would provide a cost-effective and efficient business concerning traditional business. Frauds, which are becoming more frequent appearance in electronic banking, represent a growing problem for business inside of the organization and also for customers. Cybercrime is expanding rapidly, and experts are predicting that this trend will continue expanding in the future. Online banking is one of the most susceptible areas where frauds are daily repeating.

Criminal morality, nepotism, fear culture, and corruption grow into the general culture, paralysing and stagnating the country. The social pyramid of corruption consists of its massive broad base, everyday corruption whose actors are officials and citizens; the main reason is unemployment and insecurity on which the new bourgeoisie draws power from "legal" spilling public resources. The phenomenon is at least one of the most severe factors endangering the entire system and socio-political relations, influencing unemployment, economic migration, and financial security. Some government elements' systemic absence of political stability, toleration, and organised crime protection further weaken institutions. The main focus after the democratic changes was on protecting political rights, neglecting socio-economic rights, which relates to gaining (ethnoreligious joint) social capital for future prosperity. The Dayton Accords, with massive public administration and complex political organisation, and its Constitution are non-functional and unsustainable in the economic, security, and human and civil rights frameworks. After the conflict, the international community's mistake is "leaving or supporting" war political structures withan ethnonational signature. War accumulation of capital (profiteering), through the privatisation of the 1990s and long after, led to the formation of the power of capital within ethnopolitical authorities (especially war parties). Practice and power-abusive systemic corruption and nepotism on employment structure in the public sector (including higher educational institutions) require systemic legislative reforms within the rule of law discourse. The political stalemate of ethnonational elites diminishes B&H's EU perspective by opening up a dialogue of will and political assessment by EU officials. Therefore, meeting the criteria for the EU, NATO should be considered a transition goal and not just a condition for the EU; it is necessary to focus on the accession process as a (market) transformation key. Three ethnopolitics pursue containment policies; "hybrid conflicts" prevent their significant transition into three political communities, unable to make a functioning rule of law, adversely influencing observed phenomena.
Keywords: culture of corruption, ethnopolitics, political crime, criminalised war, causes and risks, systemic corruption, economic crime, criminal morality, EU and NATO, transformation

Although the trend of democratization is a reality, there are still great antagonisms and oppositions towards adapting the nation-state to different forms of diversity, be they ethnic, national, linguistic, religious, or cultural. In the region, people live with the consequences of ambitious modernization projects that have been carried out superficially and incompletely. Ethnopolitics and religious exclusivism as hegemonic projects conducted under the auspices of "one people, one state, one religion," lead directly to conflicts between ethnic groups, as an inapplicable rule in the ex-Yu. No pure model can succeed in multiple and divided countries, but patiently building a mixed model that will respect both national and civic. Any future joint work on mutual respect and coexistence of members of different cultures, i.e., ethnoreligious communities, must fully consider the existence of an indisputable political dimension in the religious traditions. Regardless of the origin of fear and how "objectively" it is grounded or not, national collectives affected by fear are-dangerous collectives, potentially destructive and self-destructive. One could learn the lesson of ideologies of internal discord and destruction as an inapplicable historical fact in this region: the fear of the other (minority/majority discourse) is the greatest enemy of all communities. Collective fear and sense of threat to the collective identity occur when events are interpreted in public discourse, particularly when political actors instrumentalize it. Keywords: ex-Yugoslavia, peace and conflict, multiculturalism, identity politics, the culture of fear, pluralism

In a symbolic sense, this region may be burdened with a kind of negative ontology that is very difficult to change. Extremist ideologies are, in fact, just a continuation of the war by other means. They have entered education, and beginning to metastasize and affect the entire social tissue, becoming "naturalness", supported by different mythopoetic narratives of a particular nation. In an environment where politics is extreme, many avoid concerns the very nature of extremism and the process of radicalization within the discourse of „peacetime“ extremism. Extremism stems from finding two basic human needs: the need for cognitive closure and personal significance. Subordination of the individual to the national community, i.e., the leader, is a psychological form of political behavior marked by an obsessive preoccupation with the decline of the community; sacrificing the process of compensatory, the cult of unification while abandoning democratic freedoms with redemptive violence and, regardless of moral and legal constraints, seeks to achieve ethnoreligious threatening collectivity (tribal identity). Extremism uses the properties of consciousness: ethnicity, religiousness, and thinking in absolute categories (in a destructive aspect to add naturalness to its ideas) to justify activities with a sacred or „patriotic“ will. Although the violent potential of nationalism in the Balkans should be overlooked by no means, the inflammatory rhetoric is just a method used by political elites to manipulate the public. Keywords: political psychology, Balkans, political naturalness, extremism, ideologies, tribal identity

Ethnic, national, and confessional affiliation in ex-Yugoslavia add to political radicalization. As a form of political power, politicized religions are, psychologically speaking, unconscious non-faith. Due to new national-state theoretical inadequacy, (i.e., nationalism as an ideology), religion is used as an instrument of socialization and legitimization of new national-political state subjects. When nation and religion become "controversial" identification and mark others as potentially dangerous, through a policy that allegedly aims to "affirm" and "protect" its people and their faith, then in local historical and current circumstances, it essentially implies antagonism in the most dramatic conflicts. The historical revisionism and the memory of the "evil" developed into a behavioral practice.

Elite su u vrijeme krize najosjetljivije na pritiske društvenih pokreta i radikalnije promjene postaju moguće. Potrebno je podržati pozitivnu vrijednost ove i svake krizne situacije: ona je uvjet tranzicije. Potrebna je perspektiva na svjetskom nivou koja je usredočena ne samo na određena pitanja ili kretanja oko kojih se društvene snage organiziraju, već i na veće procese sukoba, i okvire reformi koji se odvijaju između pokreta i vlasti. Svaki put kada se društvo suoči s pitanjem kako riješiti ekonomske i socijalne probleme koji se stvaraju, cilj kritike političke ekonomije je postaviti razumne zahtjeve koji služe da pokažu koliko je trenutni zdrav razum nerazuman. Političko-ekonomske krize koje su se pojavile u većini svijeta neće se riješiti strogom primjenom kapitalističke logike. Moraju se razviti reforme osjetljive na vjersku, paternalističku i socijalističku logiku određenih naroda na određenim mjestima kako bi se otupio amoralni utopijski projekt "slobodnih prodavača". Kritička i emancipatorska instanca čine sponu između realističnog aspekta i dimenzije mogućnosti: da bi misao bila kritična i emancipatorska mora se nužno temeljiti na postojećem i projicirati u budućnost. Ne postoji rješenje "jedne veličine za sve" za  globalne probleme. Vid pseudodemokratskih sistema iznevjerio je ne samo izvornu ideju demokracije, nego i ideju predstavničke demokracije koja je već sama po sebi udaljavanje od onoga što bi demokracija zapravo trebala biti. Ključne riječi: Politička kriza, ekonomska kriza, politička ekonomija, kapitalizam, utopijsko mišljenje

In post-Yugoslav spaces, democracy has not been won by independent and robust social groups that can act as a counterweight to the state structure, with formed interests that act "transformatively"; not directing political change and form the basis of political pluralism. In the processes of political and social transformation of society, pragmatism is a dangerous thing, and the apparent tendency of key political actors to follow the "speech of Europe" in their daily political practice without taking into the content. Ethnonationalism does not bring political scenes a socioeconomic system that would already be independently formed, with appropriate bearers of transformative interests and competing "projects" of the new order. Therefore, the worst uncertainty and fragility can slow down the normalization process and other unplanned consequences. The class of nationalist capitalists, political-economic oligarchies, during the conflicts, takes control of the state apparatus and ownership of economic resources, constituting "nation-states"; unilateral expropriation presented as a self-legitimizing act by which the whole society realizes its being in the form of sovereignty and embodies itself by constituting its "nation-state". Within the notion of "captured states," we can speak from the social property, which is privatized by postwar "tycoons;" supporting authoritarian rulers linked to kleptocracy as a strategy to maintain stability undermines the EU accession process. Civil resistance is not progressive, and all should define life in a democratic society. It is an urgent task of building a civic or democratic political culture, which is inconceivable without a built civil society. Even the banal level of democracy will not survive for a long time, and more countries are moving towards unequivocal authoritarianism and pure illiberalism.

The study aims to critically analyze the EU's political identity and how the migrant crisis embodies the most challenging political issue facing the E.U., implicating growing xenophobia and questioning European multiculturalism. Moreover, the author provides insight into the migrant crisis's socio-political and security challenges, followed by ethnographic research of the migrant's religious identity within the Balkan route. Migrations are a central issue for Europe's future, security, and identity. The EU's cultural integrity remains unclear, and the migrant crisis opens up a multiculturalism discourse. The nation-state model has undergone significant globalized world changes, becoming less sustainable and less critical for cultural, political, and economic processes. Due to the growing economic insecurity and the fear of losing national identities in an environment of globalized culture, some have perceived multiculturalism as a threat. The humanitarian and security discourse reflects the micro-level of the situation on the ground and the mass media's macro levels and political action. Acceptance of ethnoreligious or political diversity does not relieve immigrants of the duty to recognize all the rules necessary to conduct productive coexistence. Migrants' participation in socioeconomic and political systems means realizing the preconditions for the beginning of cultural integration. The crisis triggered an avalanche of anti-Islam sentiments that became a reference matrix for radical populism. The sense of identification with the housing society-Bosniaks, where Islamic regulations on the matrix are legitimized by recognizing a universal theological pattern, is a symbolic moment and a participative approach to understanding both religion and integration. Constructing immigrants as a group, whether they are migrants, refugees, or asylum seekers, tends to encourage the perception that "their "interests, values, and traditions are competing with "ours, "stimulating negative emotions in the form of prejudice.

Akvizicije predstavljaju jedan od mogućih načina eksternog rasta preduzeća u vremenu svjetske globalizacije, koje daju šansu brzog i efikasnog prilagođavanja okruženju, pozicioniraju, konkurentnosti, te privlačnosti za investicije. Fokus rada predstavlja uloga menadžmenta u akvizicijskom procesu preduzeća u Bosni i Hercegovini, koja se reflektuje kroz jasnu viziju, uključenost u dijalog sa zaposlenima, analizi akvizicijskog procesa i načina provođenja organizacijskih promjena. Dobar menadžment može poboljšati performanse preduzeća, u velikoj mjeri uticati na (ne)sprovođenje promjena spajanja/pripajanja kroz ključne funkcije koje rezultiraju uspješnijim ili lošijim poslovanjem u odnosu na predakvizicijski period. Doprinos se ogleda u pružanju preporuka menadžmentu za unapređenje uspješnosti akvizicijskih procesa preduzeća u Bosni i Hercegovini. Abstract Acquisitions present one of the possible ways of external growth of enterprises in the time of globalization, which are giving the chance for quickly and effectively adapting to the environment, positioning, competitiveness and attractiveness for investments. Paper is focused on the role of management in acquisition's process of enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is reflected through clear vision, engagement of management in dialogue with employees, analysing of acquisition's process and they way of implementing organizational changes. Good management could improve performance of enterprises, also by large extent, management could affect (un) implementation of merging and unmerging changes through the key functions which are resulting with more successful or worse operations than acquisition's period. Contribution is reflected in providing recommendations to the management for improving success of acquisitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Dobar sistem sigurnosti predstavlja največi stupanj jedinstva različitosti što znači da se sve različite pojedinosti dovode u međusobni sklad. BiH nema adekvatnu cyber sigurnost: privatizacija političkog utjecaja, nedovoljna institucionalna saradnja, fundamentalno negativan politički ambijent (etnopolitičko institucionalno ustrojstvo), fragmentiran cyber prostor (država-entiteti-kantoni), nedostatak finansija, naučno-istraživačkih okvira i stručnih ljudskih resursa. Dobro upravljanje, tj. država, treba se temeljiti na neovisnosti, struč- nosti i integritetu institucija i pojedinaca. Imenovanje i zapošljavanje u javnom sektoru stranačkom praksom zahtjeva hitnu analizu i sistematske reforme. Upotreba društvenih medija može ugroziti nacionalnu sigurnost ili pomoći u ostvarenju državnih strateških interesa. Mehanizmi odbrane i instrumenti moraju biti pažljivo prilagođeni, po uzoru na razvijenije zemlje, s posebnim osvrtom na monitoring korištenja društvenih medija, posebno za organizacije s više ili manje linearnim strukturama. Svijest društva o cyber sigurnosti bitna je za prihvatanje i provođenje mjera sigurnosti informacija na svim nivoima i u svim vremenskim okvirima. Broj korisnika u BiH je značajno iznad svjetskog prosjeka, izražavjući zabrinutost za sigurnost podataka koje pohranjuju. Usvajanje strategije cyber sigurnosti sa fokusom na socijalne medije od strane etnopolitičkog vodstva u širem okviru strategije nacionalne sigurnosti znači odabir specifičnog pristupa društvenim medijima, kao rezultat uravnoteženog izbora između dvije dijametralno suprotne linije djelovanja. Neučinkovitost BiH sistema cyber sigurnosti je neraskidivo povezana s etnopolitičkim vodstvom tijekom procesa usvajanja i implementacije nacionalne strategije i svih razina primjene mehanizama koji su uključeni u zaštitu. Područje Zapadnog Balkana nalazi se u višedecenijskoj ekonomskoj depresiji, sa unutardržavnim konfliktima, i difuzija društvenih medija u narednom periodu može uticati na pojačanu koherentnost organizovanog kriminaliteta, revolucija, terorizma, etno-nacionalizma, i nasilja kao najmanje poželjnog faktora implozije. Ključne riječi: društveni mediji; nacionalna sigurnost; cyber sigurnost; Zapadni Balkan; BiH; instrumenti; strategija; etnopolitika; institucije

A sound security system represents the most significant degree of unity of diversity, which means that all the different details are brought into harmony. B&H does not have adequate cybersecurity: privatization of political influence, insufficient institutional cooperation, fundamentally hostile political environment (ethnopolitical institutional structure), fragmented cyberspace (state-entity-cantons), lack of finances, scientific-research frameworks, and professional human resources. Good management, i.e., state, should be based on institutions’ and individuals’ independence, expertise, and integrity. Appointments and employment in the public sector by party practice require urgent analysis and systematic reforms. The use of social media can jeopardize national security or help pursue national strategic interests. Defense mechanisms and instruments must be carefully tailored, modeled on more developed countries, emphasizing monitoring the use of social media, especially for organizations with more or less linear structures. Public awareness of cybersecurity is essential for adopting and implementing information security measures at all levels and in all time frames. The number of users in B&H is significantly above the world average, expressing concern for the security of the data they store. The adoption of a cybersecurity strategy focusing on social media by ethnopolitical leadership within the broader framework of a national security strategy means choosing a specific approach to social media due to a balanced choice between two opposed lines of action. The B&H cybersecurity system’s inefficiency is inextricably linked to ethnopolitical leadership during adopting and implementing the national strategy and all levels of implementation of the mechanisms involved in protection. The Western Balkans are in a decades-long economic depression, with internal conflicts. In the coming period, social media diffusion may affect the increased coherence of organized crime, revolutions, terrorism, ethnonationalism, and violence as the least desirable factor of implosion. Keywords: social media; national security; cybersecurity, Western Balkans; B&H; instruments; strategy; ethnopolitics; institutions

The study critically analyzes the root causal and consequential transnational human trafficking factors from the Balkan wars to the present, implying stigmatization discourse, gender-discriminatory climate, the role of masculinity by comprehensive bibliographic review, and insight into the socio-political and economic challenges by the participative observations and the BiH case study's, highlighting harmonization, improvement, and systemic transformation. It is a social phenomenon that requires a comprehensive (legal-social) approach, i.e., applying effective measures in terms of prevention, suppression, and the punishment of perpetrators with mandatory "regional" cooperation. Illegal economy, structural adjustment policies conditioned by international financial funds, systemic corruption, long-term transition, high unemployment, and economic migrations shape the region's economic climate and indirectly affect the state of phenomena. Ethnopolitical structures produce social (in)-stability, affecting the phenomena. Lack of political will and constant internal ethnopolitical conflicts impact the contrary course of initiatives to combat the phenomenon. Considerable attention to victims' social construction in judicial and social capital is critical due to the effects of destructive representation of misogyny elements on perpetuating sexist stereotypes that harm victims and further exploiting. Stigma in social justice significantly affects victimization dynamics, intertwining cultural, legal, conservative patterns, and structural violence continuation. The Western-Balkan states' legal double standards towards prostitution are discriminatory. Implementing adequate programs to reduce stigmatization while increasing institutional and general public exposure to victims who have made successful reintegration could be a productive aspect of the systemic transformation. Western-Balkan  gender-discriminatory  climate  and  masculinity's  role  in establishing  an  ethnonational  political  community  based  on conservative values remain  insufficiently  explored. Given the  challenges  of the  current migrant crisis, the political level can ensure a coherent and coordinated EU and Western  Balkans  strategy  in  harmonizing  and  improving  the existing normative solutions.

A rational analysis of the international community's failure to prevent war crimes in BiH (Bosnia and Herzegovina) can be a lesson for the future's morality model. The EU's role in Southeast Europe is inconsistent between its normative potential and current problematic aspects of process implementation policies. The recognition of Dayton's failure by the US, can pave the way for building a political community within the current "virtual entity" that does not possess vertical and horizontal legitimacy. It would be morally obligatory, even imperative, to build blueprints and state reorganization tools in the concrete. Dayton is non-functional, unsustainable, and socio-politically exclusionary. When there is a higher degree of internal democratization, economic-technological development, a higher degree of realization of human rights and freedoms, it moves the nature of the conflict away from the violent conflict. Prosperity and stability often coincide. It brings it closer to the conflict of development and human well-being. In this concept, war, nepotism has the meaning of losing any possibility of reaching the national interest, which automatically eliminates the possibility of manipulating one's people's national interests. The discourse "our vs. their sacred land" created unbearable ease of creating fear, manipulating, and motivating new crimes. Its absurdity was confirmed by the right of entity creation, given the prerogatives of statehood. Such principles could be used as a motive for new "territorial redistribution" and further violence in the Balkans. An active policy change is needed to sufficiently limit ethnic-nationalist domestic and global-interest ability to inflict harm.

The critical security studies should be not to establish "objective truth" but to enable a broader understanding of security based on respect for specific theoretical and political starting points in its conceptualization. Issues of environmental security and environmental protection are issues of overall security because they directly cause: open conflicts, have the potential to destabilize the regime, can lead to the displacement of the population and the disintegration of the states. Regarding the geopolitical consequences of climate change, climate change consequences, such as global warming, rising sea levels, droughts, melting glaciers, and many others, significantly impact the world geopolitics. The level of conflict between states depends on how strong the ties and common interests of the entire region states and globally. Some states depend on what the atmosphere will be like in their environment. If they are stable and economically prosperous, so will they affect neighboring countries. When climate change has reduced living resources, the economic framework played a much more critical role than religion in joining terrorist organizations. There is a need for research initiatives on how modern technologies, on the one hand, and the involvement of the younger generations and minorities on the other, can be used and increased as ways to strengthen communities' resilience to disasters and ensure an effective, comprehensive, and sustainable approach. Quality governance and leadership in the field of climate change is crucial for environmental safety.

The paper focuses on the political position populism occupies in representative democracies as an inclusionary pylon for fascism, with the analog review of the Balkans and its global security lessons. Populism implies a constant conflict between elite, establishment, alienated structures linked to interests contrary to the public or members of other ethnoreligious backgrounds. Both left and right populism aim at a particular political and social homogeneity. The phenomenon of increased countries with developed democratic institutions and standards with authoritarianism leads to a closed circle of global "legitimate-democratic" violence, in which democratic institutions and standards, human and minority rights, and freedoms will be a danger. The Balkan's lessons in dealing with similar individuals and movements that promote the "cleansing" of Europe and preserving an "identity" artificially tailored to others' hatred are proactivity. The Balkans' (un)-successful fight against the historical forms of right-wing extremism in more current circumstances have become like an overflowing foundation of global right-wing networks. Humankindʼs great concern stems from the increasingly aggressive foreign policy, xenophobic sentiment, and the growing inclination of the autocratic populist government to stop the transition of violence to democracy in the scientifically-technologically and culturally-spiritually objectively connected global community. Solutions based on opportunism and manipulation do not offer anything concrete that could improve the socio-political-security-economic situation. When a liberal sees that certain elements use coercion to regulate social relations according to their desire, to force the whole of society on acceptable socioeconomic behavior, the liberal should feel a personal responsibility to stand up for freedom.

The study's objective is to critically explore the relationship between politics, morality, ethics, and law, focusing on the Western Balkans. Like morality, politics is an activity and an effort around the community. As a concern for the community, and the everyday life of the people, morality would be the first kind, the first and most favorable form of politics. It means acting for the community's benefit, especially for the benefit of those who cannot fight for justice independently. Alternatively, if it accepts good and best customs as a regulation of its actions, it would have to be a pure moral derivative. Theoretically, then, politics should be the essence of morality. Human amorality is most prevalent in political parties. A transparent society's struggle should be based on political actors', a power-holders real will to make positive social values such as honesty, responsibility, and efficiency desirable behavior. To act morally also means to self-limit the power that arises from a political position restraint from conformism. It is a society's strategic commitment to preventing corrupt behavior by installing systematic tools in public authorities, corrupt irregularities sanction, and irresponsible individuals punished and prevented from acting in public. Hypocrisy and private interest characterized by civil society's industrial phase are rampant in post-Yugoslav societies. Individuals remain subjects of politics; without them, neither justice nor morality will happen. Affirming the idea of sociopolitical justice and democracy valued by the government's attitude towards the individual is the foundation of the theory of human rights' inalienability.

The studyʼs objective is to explore the social and political framework of terrorism and critically analyze the antihumanist approach to denominational hypocrisy of Western and non-Western terrorism. Radicalization and violent extremism are becoming increasingly pronounced threats to societies' security and stability at the global level. Despite the lack of uniform definitions and views on this phenomenon, terrorism as an antihumanist approach to struggle must be condemned by all nations and all religious groups within countries to delegitimize its protagonists. These are issues at the global level and transmitted to the national and local levels. It is a strategy of violence designed to achieve results by gradually causing fear and insecurity. It is the violence directed against faith, tolerance, freedom, and humanistic values internationally. Thus, the suspension of morality and the suspension of legal regulations for everyday conditions, for living in peace. Many violent cases classified as terrorism show that politically motivated violence is a massive, complex, and present issue in societies than reducing the whole phenomenon to militant Islamist groups or isolated individuals. An argument often made in discussions of terrorism is those committed by whites, or Christians, within the political or religious beliefs and ideologies do not count as terrorism because of double standards. The public administrations and the media should avoid calling terrorist organizations Islamic and not forcing "the conflict with Islam". The hypocritical attitudes and behavioral patterns are contra-productive. The changing "Islamic terrorism" prejudice paradigmʼs discourse should harmonize attitudes and behavioral patterns, which are critical. Extremism can be attributed to any religion, but no religion should, in any case, be accused of motivating extremism.

Undemocratic processes of hybrid and psychological geopolitical warfare blurred relations and security paradigm. The legacy of conflicts and the applied Western policies to the region is the strengthening of ethnonational discourses and the activation of regional crises. The Anglo-American project of post-Cold War spatial planning in the Western Balkans is ineffective. It would be necessary to formulate new Western policies. Balkan nationalist and separatist ideas, which resurfaced with the former Yugoslavia's break-up, should be reticent and transform within the European Union (EU). Montenegro and, in particular, Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) is vulnerable to destabilizing Russian influences, using a complicated social, political, and economic environment, a lack of strategic orientation, and divisions over NATO integration. As for China, Arab countries, and Israel, their influence in the Balkans remains limited, primarily - but not exclusively - to economic projects. However, these impacts will continue to grow unless more severe and concrete measures are taken by the US and EU. Further weakening or eventual disappearance of the EU perspective in the Balkans could lead to new attempts to establish "Greater" - Albania, Croatia, Serbia, or even Ottoman Turkey through violent border changes in the region. Instead of democratizing, the 21st century has brought fragility in the Balkans.