ABSTRACT
That attitude signifies a belief that the history of this area is replete with periods of ethnic conflagration that simply culminated at the end of the twentieth century in the bloody collapse of Yugoslavia. Other analysts suggest structural weaknesses. One example is represented by the “security dilemma”: A state must amass enough power to become secure;
however, when that power becomes so great that it threatens the security of others, the state’s security may in turn become endangered, as its enemies begin to fear its strength.6
