Social democracy is failing all across Europe; but it's impotence in the Balkans especially is having serious...

On occasion of the publication of “Bunkers” by Manuel Montobbio, a book on the totalitarian experience, we propose a...

Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania tells the extraordinary story of how one man held an entire country hostage...

The recent Serbia-Albania football match was like a microcosm of the twenty-first century Balkans: lots of intense,...

Haki Stërmilli 1936 novel If I Were a Boy portrays the contemporary problems of Albanian society that stem from a...

Sixty miles north, in the rocky and desolate Spaç labor camp, political prisoners watched the ceremony from wooden...

A recent spate of terrorist attacks in Albania has drawn virtually no international attention. But the consequences...

Were UEFA being dangerously naive when they allowed Serbia and Albania to be drawn into the same qualifying group?

Instead of bringing the focus back to sports, UEFA’s decision about the abandoned Albania-Serbia game has given an...

On life in prison generally, the most common complaints across five countries were about hygiene and space.

The post-1945 system is today overtaken by events and a new world order is about to emerge. This new—quite...

A new socialist model is emerging in the western Balkans. Can its political vocabulary transcend the ethno-national...

Albania has been leading the Balkan region in its management of women prisoners – a complex group to detain and...

A handy guide for journalists on how to write about this mysterious and brooding region.

“Are you saying that Le Pen has a branch even in Albania?!” – intervened the one who had found the envelope. “Yes,...

Interestingly the change-over in 1991 is described by many as the ‘arrival of democracy’, but there is little...

There are particularities of fear in a post-communist Europe bewildered by the demands of neoliberalism, which also...

On 21 January, three people died when the Republican Guard opened fire on protesters in front of the Prime...

Albania’s iron communist regime survived until 1990, five years after the death of its great dictator, Enver Hoxha....

Hoxha's bunkers remind Albanian's of the destructive paranoia of their recent past. But they are being re-used and...