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reimagining yugoslaviaThe politics of nationalism and ethnic cleansing broke up the federation, leaving successor states blighted by economic crisis, corruption, and dependency on the international community. Yet amidst deep controversy over the Hague tribunal and the future of Kosovo, a still raw democratic politics is developing across the region. Reimagining Yugoslavia reassesses the lessons of tragedy, its wider historical and international context, and discusses the possibilities of a future beyond fate.
The seizure of a leading war-crimes suspect may help lift the burdens of the past in the region
Radovan Karadzic's detention is a moral lesson in political accountability
A key fugitive from the ex-Yugoslavia wars is held. Who gains?
The formation of a new government offers modest hope of progress in the path to Europe
Solutions to self-determination disputes are better found through compromise than confrontation
The outcome of Serbia's fourth election in two years passes the advantage to the political power-brokers
Kosovo's independence fuels arguments on both sides in the middle east - and in Iraqi Kurdistan
Belgrade's official demonstration against Kosovo's independence is a dramatist's nightmare
A new state in Europe revives a perennial question of identity: who are the Kosovars?
A venerable Serbian politician and historian embodied the best of his country
The cost of Kosovo's independence is Serb embitterment. It's time to rethink
The Kosovo assembly in Pristina announced on 17 February 2008 that the territory was an independent state. This is its declaration in full
Boris Tadic’s re-election as president opens a time of even greater test for democracy in Serbia
Serbia's
inconclusive vote was less about Kosovo and more about Belgrade's
political dynamics
The Kosovo-Serbia endgame is an alarm-call for Europe's policy in the region
Kosovo could detonate conflict across a wide region in 2008
Kosovo is everyone's baby - but it faces being
abandoned to its fate
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