International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation Arben Qirezi: Fragile States and EU Integration Uncertainty/ Delay as a Security Threat to the Western Balkans Countries and a Source of Radicalization The Post-war reconstruction in the Western intervention in internal security and stability of Balkans was the most expensive international these places. For the purpose of this study, investment in re-building war-torn societies. The stability is dened as regular and peaceful wars that accompanied the dissolution of the rotation of government, absence of inter-group former Yugoslavia have taken a high toll both in violence, legitimacy of the system as well as human life, economy as well as in the fabric of effectiveness and validity of institutions and the societies affected by military aggression decision-making. during the 1990s. In this sense, the international intervention has failed to help these societies to create sustainable democracy. As Mesquita and Downes argue, international interveners, rarely, if ever, are even interested to help the growth of 98 democracy within their client countries. Indeed, the external interveners view these places as clients, rather than as places where democratic development is sought. However, there are three principles in which international intervention in Kosovo and in Bosnia and Herzegovina relied its efforts: rst, dialogue and peace between ethnic communities; second, the build-up of multi­party system; and third, rule of law and free market economy. These three principles were thought to stabilize these countries in their path to European integration. In the next paragraphs, I will review the progress made and see whether the external intervention has managed to create sustainable democracies capable of grasping the challenges of transition towards the EU integration, or whether they still remain fragile democracies. Following this, I will review the effects of the EU intervention in terms of setting the parameters of the integration of these countries in the EU and the effects of this