International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia, while Albania integrating contested states(2011, 24). We are and Montenegro remain vulnerable to the approaching 2015, and this statement is as valid developments in the rest of the region. From this today as it was when it was written more than perspective, it is debatable whether the current three years ago. In the remaining part of my EU approach can fully resolve the tensions presentation, I will further explore the between institution and nation-building practices underlining reasons for the“unnished” in the essentially contested states in the business of the EU involvement in the region. Western Balkans, particularly in Bosnia­Herzegovina and Macedonia. What do I mean by this? In the context of the Western Balkans, a democratic polity requires not only that there is a mutually agreed upon consensus between the states on the territorial framework of the Western Balkans, but also that citizens accept political community they belong to. But, most of Western Balkan states are, in the words of Vetton Suroi(cp 2011), unnished states. The 93 2011 EU Institute For Security Studies Report nicely encapsulates their“unnishness,” and it is worth quoting its author(Jacques Rupnik) at length: Kosovo[is] in search of sovereignty and recognition; Bosnia and Herzegovina in search of a post-Dayton constitution(replacing a constitution designed to end the war with one for a functioning democratic polity); Serbia in search of accepted/acceptable borders with both above mentioned states(an equation complicated by its non-recognition of Kosovo and the ambivalence of its relations with Republika Srpska); Macedonia/FYROM in search of an identity and a name. For the rst time the European Union, a project conceived in order to relativize states' sovereignty, has become involved in the formation of new nation-states that also aspire to become members of the Union. Until now the EU's transformative power has proved effective in integrating established states; now it is confronted with the challenge of