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Research in Brief: Regional Cooperation Through the MARRI Project

Trpe Stojanovski, PhD, Professor, University  "St. Kliment" — Ohridski, Bitola, Macedonia, and Director of MARRI Regional Center Stojanka Mirceva, PhD, Assistant Professor Katerina Krstevska, PhD, Assistant Professor Rade Rajkovcevski, PhD, Assistant Professor Toni Jakimovski, MSc, University "St. Kliment Ohridski"— Bitola, and National Representative in MARRI Regional Center Aleksandar Stojanovski, LLM, "Rijksuniversiteit Groningen," The Netherlands

Regional police cooperation has proved important to law enforcement and security efforts across the world, but the execution of cooperation becomes challenging when the Western Balkans region is analyzed. Ten or fifteen years ago, police services were part of the war conflicts in the region; today, they promote security. The challenges of regional police cooperation include perceptions of state sovereignty; legally determined police cooperation; convergence through regional trainings, cultural diversity; language barriers; and combating organized crime. All of these issues demand police cooperation.

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