{"id":6385,"date":"2020-12-17T15:33:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/?p=6385"},"modified":"2021-12-16T12:22:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T10:22:51","slug":"malign-foreign-influence-in-the-western-balkans-the-evc-review-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/cs\/malign-foreign-influence-in-the-western-balkans-the-evc-review-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0160kodliv\u00fd zahrani\u010dn\u00ed vliv na z\u00e1padn\u00edm Balk\u00e1n\u011b: EVC revize 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to the European Values Center for Security Policy\u2019s 2020 Review of malign foreign influence in the Western Balkans. This will be the first of an annual series serving the greater transatlantic foreign policy community as it highlights various interventions \u2013 political, economic, and military \u2013 undertaken in the Western Balkans by authoritarian states and related anti-democratic actors.<\/p>\r\n
Russia, China, and other authoritarian governments seek to project their illiberal agendas in the Western Balkans through various avenues via multiple vectors; more than a summary review based on open sources can provide. Accordingly, the purpose of this Review is to afford a broad perspective of significant developments arising primarily from Russian and Chinese governments\u2019 designs to prevent the consolidation of genuinely democratic institutions throughout the region.<\/p>\r\n
This Review\u2019s contents are chiefly the result of on-going research undertaken by civil society organizations based in the Western Balkans and working in partnership with the European Values Center (EVC) under a grant generously provided by the National Endowment for Democracy. Bosnia and Herzegovina\u2019s Zashto Ne?, Montenegro\u2019s Center for Democratic Transition, and North Macedonia\u2019s Most Citizen\u2019s Association contributed regularly to Balkans Watch Briefing, EVC\u2019s monthly electronic bulletin reporting largely on foreign-backed disinformation efforts in their respective countries. Review analysis of authoritarians\u2019 progress in Serbia are based on open source research and interviews undertaken by EVC\u2019s Senior Analyst for the Western Balkans. And, finally, special recognition and gratitude to our noted partners in Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t