Role of EU, USA, NATO in Ethnic Conflict Management in Western Balkans

Former Yugoslavia was a country with many nationalities that have established throughout its historical development very complex and layered relations. Differences caused tensions and later conflicts, derived from different levels of economic development, which created a feeling of inequality or marginalization of particular ethnicities within a certain socio - political communities, as well as from sociological peculiarities of ethnicities, lack of both general and minority rights that reflect the status of ethnicities, lack of mechanisms for proper implementation of the rights of ethnicities. Such relationships often tended to allow radical ways of solution including wars. In all situations, contemporary wars will be ended with mediation by the international factor, i.e. NATO as a military organization, the European Union and the United States as participants in the peaceful, soft - power negotiations between the parties that were at war. The effects were mostly positive - ending of hostilities and stability of the political institutions, but less success is achieved in respect to the effectiveness of their political systems.