Balkan energy corridors as a source and potential for solving security problems

Energy-related problems often serve as a cause for provoking broader conflicts and endangering state, regional, and even global security. The resolution of potential conflicts depends on local elites' approach to the problem as well as on their wisdom.. The area of the Balkan Peninsula is a meeting place for the interests of almost all key geo-political actors. The ability of the states within the region to recognize their mutual interests and jointly pursue their realization can largely neutralize the tendencies of great powers to pursue their own interests through the (mis)use of individual local actors. A common approach on the part of the states within the region could alter the way in which the great powers treat their interests. Reprinted by permission of Megatrend University, Belgrade, Serbia