No. 282: Undermining Trust: Rearmament in the Western Balkans

Author(s): Andrej Marković, Jeronim Perović
Series Editor(s): Lisa Watanabe, Julian Kamasa, Fabien Merz, Névine Schepers, Benno Zogg
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021

In recent years, states in the Western Balkans have increasingly rearmed. The arms purchases – often accompanied by nationalist rhetoric – endanger the fragile trust in a region where conflicts remain unresolved. Serbia plays a key role in these dynamics. Belgrade also uses arms purchases to deepen its relations with Russia and China.

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