After the intra-state wars and conflicts in the Balkans region, insecurities caused by weak states still constitute an important concern for stability of the region. Therefore, international community has engaged in some attempts for rebuilding of weak states through state-building efforts in order to prevent the spill-over effects of insecurities originated from them. Because, security issues such as arms, drugs and human trafficking, organized crime, corruption, immigration and refugee problems in the Western Balkans threaten the democracy, the rule of law, human rights, political stability and the economic progress within the region. Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo as the weak states of the region suffer from deficits in legitimacy, capacity and provision of public goods. That's why, they are unable to implement effective development policies for its citizens' basic needs in terms human security. In this paper, it is aimed to analyse the relationship between state-building process and its security implications in the Western Balkans. Conceptually, state-building refers to the set of actions undertaken by international actors to strengthen the capacity, legitimacy and the institutions of the state where these have seriously been eroded or are missing. The state-building processes of the weak states in the region are closely related to the European integration process of the region. Although there are ongoing efforts in all these countries to reform institutional capacity of the state in accordance to European standards, it can be conluded that these reforms are, at best, only mildly effective. That's why, the paper argues that real success of the state-Security dialogues 60 building efforts in the region depends on the embracement of these efforts by the people.

This paper is written in the belief that the European Union uses different instruments in order to maintain a permanent peace environment in the post-conflict regions. To answer the question of what those instruments are, we begin by taking a closer look at Macedonia and Kosovo cases which clarify the peace-building conception of the Union. In accordance with the aims of this study, the concept of human security will be regarded to mean a circumstance that the European Union has officially recognized as a basic policy to evaluate the peace-building instruments. The major instrument that the European Union uses at the nation and state building processes of post-conflict regions is the Stabilization and Association Process. Under that process, the European Union signed several agreements with the Western Balkans countries known as Stabilization and Association Agreements. We found a significant correlation between Stabilization and Association Agreements and the reconstruction of the Western Balkan countries' economic and political conditions, which have gained their independency after the disunification of Yugoslavia but experienced serious state-building problems. These consequences of the Stabilization and Association Agreements with Macedonia and Kosovo complement each other and help to illuminate the phenomenon of the success of Stabilization and Association Process of the European Union.Bu makale için önerilen kaynak gösterimi (APA 6.

Devlet-içi çatışmalar, insanların kitleler halinde zorla yerlerinden edilmelerine yol açabilmektedir. Bu kapsamda, demografik dinamiklerin ve insan hareketliliklerinin tüm düzeylerde (bireysel, toplumsal, ulusal, bölgesel ve uluslararası) güvenlik için önemli yansımaları vardır. Etnik açıdan homojenleştirme adına önemli sayıda insan kendi ülkelerinde yerlerinden edilirken, diğerleri komşu ülkelere akın etmekte ve mülteci konumuna düşmektedirler. Bu nedenle, bu tür insan hareketleri, genel olarak Uluslararası İlişkiler disiplininde ve özel olarak Güvenlik Çalışmaları alanında büyük bir dikkat çekmektedir. Gerçekten zorla göç ettirilmiş mülteciler ve içsel olarak yerlerinden edilmiş insanlar, Balkanlar bölgesi için önemli istikrarsızlık faktörleri olmuşlardır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Kosova örnek olayı bağlamında göç ve güvenlik arasındaki bağlantılar ile ilgili bir bakış açısı ortaya koymaktır. Kosova krizi sırasında 1999 yılında yaklaşık 2 milyon insan zorla yerlerinden edilmişken, NATO müdahalesi ise, Sırpların insan hakları ihlallerine maruz kalması ile sonuçlanmış ve Sırpların çoğunun Kosova dışına göç etmesine neden olmuştur..

Traditional security approach focuses on the state and the problem of national security. However, it is argued that individuals should be privileged as the referent object of security. Human security concept consists of actors and agendas that are not evaluated by traditional security approach. Human security holds that the security of the state does not necessarily ensure the security of its citizens. The nation-state is experiencing an erosion of power and sovereignty, and non-state actors are part of the cause. One aspect of them is violent non-state actor (VNSA) that contests the monopoly on violence of the state and pose a pressing challenge to human security. This paper aims to identify factors, trends, and developments that have contributed to the emergence of VNSAs and their implications upon human security.

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