Abstract
The Western Balkans is dominated by its geographical position, which, after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, was one of the regions that experienced the most difficult transition because this process was accompanied by bilateral and multilateral conflicts, with local and regional wars, with political and ethnic clashes. As a consequence, it was also politically fragmented on its map. The international community actively intervened in the Balkans with various civilian and military missions, respectively during the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and North Macedonia (former FYROM). These international interventions have yielded concrete results in the process of overall democratic reforms of the countries of the region, with particular emphasis on the security field, as well as the aspect of integration reforms in both NATO and the EU.
 Fragmentation of the Western Balkans came for many historical, political, economic, military, geopolitical and strategic reasons. This process also had consequences for the integration process of this region. But it is currently fully oriented towards European and Euro-Atlantic structures. No Balkan countries including Kosovo have any other orientations besides these (there are doubts about Serbia). Serbia has stated that it does not want NATO membership, while Russia has tried and is constantly trying to cause chaos in the Western Balkans. How this chaos is caused and how the cooperation of the countries of this region has affected and is influenced is the essence of our work that will draw conclusions about how to act in the future.
Highlights
The democratic processes of the 1990s in the Western Balkans, with particular emphasis after the fall of the Berlin Wall, were followed entirely by different challenges compared to those during the Cold War
Second Approach: Outside Cooperation for the Balkans “Preventive Diplomacy” The coming to power of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia and the beginning of the destruction of Yugoslavia due to Serbian megalo-ideas for the creation of a Greater Serbia and the disappearance of Albanians based on the memorandum of the Serbian academy SUNA, created new circumstances for the region and for the international community
Theory of Security- instructs the region that in order to preserve its existence, its values, its space, its state systems and continuity, it must find the form of internal cooperation and external secure support that doesn’t require the disappearance of core values but only a necessary evolution as Baldwin points out. This form of functioning of the region, from the region’s requirements for external support, turns into a support that both sides need each other as in the case NATO-Western Balkans, when the latter had the need for NATO at the stage and cooperation is deepening and security is stability and peace and progress
Summary
The democratic processes of the 1990s in the Western Balkans, with particular emphasis after the fall of the Berlin Wall, were followed entirely by different challenges compared to those during the Cold War. In order to create a new spirit and order through dialogue, cooperation and trust, should be the objective of the security institutions in the short and long term of the Western Balkans states This strategic vision is the recognition of the state of Kosovo by neighboring states and its return to a factor of security and stability in Southeast Europe. Kosovo is against creating regional crises and conflicts and resolving them by means of violence In this context, one of the strategic goals is to build the structure of the security system and to provide the capacity to develop peace support operations, in support of international law and humanitarian principles, under the guidance of the United Nations, NATO1 and the European Union. A special part of this is devoted at the end to this kind of diplomacy and the way of dealing with it within the theme of the paper
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