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Great Power Competition Playing Out through U.S. Security Assistance to the Balkans
Despite the relative lack of attention it has received in recent years, the Balkan region is a critical strategic area for both the United States and Russia and increasingly for China, with the potential for competing interests to complicate a fragile stability.