Geopolitics And The Balkan Other: The Uses Of “Balkanism” In NATO Expansion
Journal: USF Scholarship Repository (University of San Francisco)
Year: 2018

Montenegro’s 2017 accession to NATO signaled an increased geopolitical interest in the Balkan region. Since then, governments and news sites have discussed the question of what is next for NATO in the Balkans. Similarly, a number of high-level US officials have recently travelled to the region in order to promote Western integration and NATO membership. Their discourses to encourage NATO expansion problematically coincide with discourses that “other” the region through pejorative representations