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reimagining yugoslavia

The 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.

While celebrating Europe’s “velvet revolutions” we should recall that what happened in Srebrenica is also part of Europe’s post-1989 history
The fragmentation of Bosnia reflects the long afterlife of the Bosnian Serb leader's political project 
Karadzic's refusal to appear in court raises the question of whether war crimes defendants should have the right to self-representation
The recognition of Kosovo damaged the UN and set a bad precedent
The date was fateful: 28 June 1919. The baptism was tough. The outcome: a multinational state
Nato's assault prised Kosovo from Serbia in 1999 in a "risk-transfer war" with a bitter legacy
The bitter atmospherics of the Serbia-Kosovo dispute tell only part of a complex story 
A constrained independence leaves Europe's newest state living in contradiction
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  
The easing of an internal crisis leaves the big questions unresolved
A crucial deadline leaves Kosovo's Serbs in limbo
A new state is being born amid fear as well as hope
Kosovo is everyone's baby - but it faces being abandoned to its fate
Belgrade is raising the heat over Kosovo's future. Why?
The survivors of the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 are refocusing their energies on the attempt to bring to change to Bosnia itself
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