The Balkan Peninsula has been an unstable regional security subsystem because of a number of defining and qualitative parameters, namely, overt or covert challenges to the territorial status, inter-ethnic conflicts, the “great idea” syndrome, out-of-system interference, and minority...

This essay will examine the geographical, structural, political and cultural elements that affect the West’s unfavourable evaluation norm towards the Balkans, a negative notion that eventually affects the region’s course to economic and political advancement. The combination, interaction and...