Judy Asks: Are the Western Balkans Imploding?

A selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey each week on a European topic in the news.

In this feature the question is: Are the Western Balkans Imploding?

+ Kurt Bassuener - Senior associate at the Democratization Policy Council
+ Dimitar Bechev - Director of the European Policy Institute in Sofia and visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University
+ Gordana Delic - Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States
+ Igor Novakovic - Research director at the International and Security Affairs Centre
+ Natasha Wunsch - Associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations and PhD candidate at University College London

ESO: Background information: Return to instability: How migration and great power politics threaten the Western Balkans (ECFR: Policy Brief, March 2016) http://www.europeansources.info/record/return-to-instability-how-migration-and-great-power-politics-threaten-the-western-balkans/

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