Security Governance in Times of Complexity The EU and Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans 1991-2013 - Anastasiia Kudlenko Kartoniert (TB)

Framed by complexity-thinking this book uses the prism of security sector reform (SSR) to trace the co-evolution of the Western Balkans as part of the EU Europe security community and the European Union (EU) as a security actor. It aims to analyse the suitability and adaptability of EU security governance to a VUCA world i.e. a world of increasing vulnerability uncertainty complexity and ambiguity¿the world of transformative change. It takes a detailed view on the transformation of regional and state security in the Western Balkans and the EU¿s role in the process between 1991 the year t hat marked the flare-up of violence and large-scale conflict and 2013 when the first state of the region joined the EU.