The Balkans revisited

By Selim Ibraimi-Center for Security Studies and Development-Macedonia (CSSD)

Although Russia has move part of the military hardware from Syria, the landscape of competition between World Powers in the Balkans remains the same. The Europe and partially the Balkans become hot spot of Russia.

The U.S., because of the Imperial Constrains has move huge of the military and intelligence assets, from the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

The Prime Minister of Russia Medvedev will pay visit to Serbia on the eve of European crisis and, high level of corruption in the Western Balkans.

After the Crimean War, the US foreign policy of President Obama moved to different geopolitical motion.

In the Balkans, the State Department probably in the coming years must change the form of diplomatic installation, on how to gather and analyze country’s host informations.

The intelligence information in age of cyber warfare and espionage, will be more and more difficult.

Adapting the right methodology and strategy, it will help diplomats and local staff, on dealing accurately with threats and adversaries on daily bases as political, security and economic informations.

Russia in last years have changed the way how it is collecting information’s intelligence.

The geopolitics of informations and strategic invesments in Europe by World Powers will define also the future of the Balkans.