Abstract
Southeast Europe (SEE) is a region where the transition to a market economy and multiparty democracy has evolved under particularly difficult conditions. In comparison with the more advanced countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), most SEE countries today are lagging behind in their level of economic development, economic and institutional reforms, and integration with the European Union (EU). In this chapter, the SEE region is considered in its narrow definition of the Western Balkan states—Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo (the last three were part of the same country until recently).1 In discussing the initial conditions of 1989, however, reference will also be made to the other three countries in the SEE region—Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovenia.2
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