Abstract The paper analyzes the European Community/ European Union experience in the Western Balkans in the period from 1990 onwards in different context in order to assess different mechanisms which the European Union has gained with building the Common Foreign and Security Policy and within the Enlargement Policy in the process of conflict prevention and conflict resolution. Additionally, the paper makes an assessment of the EU’s involvement in the conflict prevention and conflict resolution in the Balkans after the Stabilization and Association Process was launched in 1999. The authors argue that in the case of the military conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, when the European Community was confronted with serious and hard security issues at the very beginning of creating its Common Foreign and Security Policy and in a period of time when the region was not part of the enlargement process, the Community and the Union afterwards proved to be extremely ineffective. In the second part, through three case studies, the paper demonstrate that with the combined use of CFSP mechanisms and SAP, positive examples of the EU acting as a provider of peaceful dispute settlement in the Western Balkans have been established.

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边干边学：欧盟在西巴尔干地区的变革力量和冲突

摘要本文分析了欧洲共同体/欧洲联盟在1990年之后在不同背景下在西巴尔干地区的经历，以评估欧盟在建立共同外交与安全政策以及在欧盟扩大政策范围内获得的不同机制。预防冲突和解决冲突的过程。此外，本文还评估了1999年启动稳定与结盟程序后欧盟在巴尔干半岛预防冲突和解决冲突中的参与。作者认为，就前南斯拉夫的军事冲突而言，当欧洲共同体在制定其共同外交与安全政策之初就面临严重而艰苦的安全问题时，并且在该地区不属于扩大进程的时期内，后来证明欧共体和欧盟是极其无效。在第二部分中，通过三个案例研究，论文表明，结合使用CFSP机制和SAP，已经建立了欧盟在西巴尔干地区提供和平争端解决者的积极范例。