While the agreement encouraged Albanians to integrate politically, a societal chasm remains.
But a democratic Europe at peace, cooperating economically without integrating politically, heterogeneous rather than monolithic, poses no such problems.
That will be challenging, as political differences in the region - including numerous non-democratic states - will make it tough to integrate politically, as well as socially.
The RSK declared its intention to integrate politically with Serbia, and this action was viewed by the Government of Croatia as a rebellion.
More importantly, the enormous efforts to integrate Europe politically and economically in the wake of the second world war stand in marked contrast to their absence in Asia.
In 2003 he returned home and, despite his cultural education, was now more politically integrated with the socialist tendencies of his home city than ever.
A goal of 'democracy promotion' in the Middle East, after all, is to encourage Arab countries to become economically and politically integrated with the rest of the world.
And given how far we've come since joining the EEC in 1973, it's at least a little unnerving to consider how much more politically integrated the EU will be in 10 or 15 years' time.
In time, he says, the two nations can be so integrated, economically and politically, that the border would be more like the common wall of adjoining homes and less like a militarized frontier.
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, made an argument similar to Mr. Dadush's at last week's meeting in Brussels, saying Europe must become more economically and politically integrated before it could issue common debt.
