Regional conference in Skopje has brought together think tanks from Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and Croatia.

This publication aims to provide an independent research-supported overview on the key achievements and weaknesses in the accountability of security sectors of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, and to present what effect this has on the countries’ democratic transition.

At the NATO Summit held in Prague in 2002, seven new members from the "Vilnius Group" have been welcomed into the Alliance membership - Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia. The presidents of the remaining countries from this group - Stipe Mesić from Croatia, Alfred Moisiu from Albania and Boris Trajkovski from Macedonia, promoted the idea of starting a new mechanism for the cooperation among their countries ...