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Have the former welfare states of Southeast Europe turned into farewell states? With state organs rapidly losing public trust and unable to deliver on promises of prosperity, the question of citizens’ participation in politics was the major theme of an international project entitled Developing a Long Term Strategy for Democratization in the Balkans.
The collection of papers was published by the Centre for Liberal Strategies with the support of The National Endowment for Democracy.

"Have the former welfare states of Southeast Europe turned into farewell states? With state organs rapidly losing public trust and unable to deliver on promises of prosperity, the question of citizens’ participation in politics was the major theme of an international project entitled Developing a Long Term Strategy for Democratization in the Balkans. The project, inspired and financed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), heralded a unique opportunity to debate the growing risks and challenges identified by independent analysts from the region.
The West has been funding democracy building in the Balkans for the past decade and yet the region has not been fully secured and stabilized. Kosovo is an international protectorate; Montenegro is an unwilling member of a non-functioning federation; Serbia is in the early stage of political and economic reforms; Macedonia is in the process of self-reinvention; Albania is a version of contested democracy; and Bulgaria is in the midst of its negotiations for joining the European Union (EU)."