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Published in: Home“We are seeing you”: protesting violent democracies in KosovaWithin Kosova there is a general feeling that these international actors prize stability above all else, enabling...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The insufferable ease of nationalism in the BalkansThe recent Serbia-Albania football match was like a microcosm of the twenty-first century Balkans: lots of intense,...
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Published in: 50.50Mitrovica’s symbol: reconciliation amidst inevitability, history, and violence in KosovoMitrovica’s bridge as ‘symbol’ helps obscure the forces of elite manipulation and institutions of power in...
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Published in: 50.50Wartime rape is no longer kept under wraps in KosovoTwo recent milestones in Kosovo – an official monument recognising women’s suffering during the Kosovo War, and an...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Autonomy and power-sharing in KosovoKosovo has one of the most decentralized unitary governments in the world, with highly conflicted understandings...
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Published in: civilResistanceThe limits of prudence: civil resistance in Kosovo 1990-98Howard Clark’s 2009 article “The Limits of Prudence” is a clear summary of his research into the civil resistance in...
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Published in: civilResistanceCivil resistance in Kosovo: leader syndromesThis is one of two extracts from Howard Clark’s major study Civil Resistance in Kosovo (the other can be read here)....
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Published in: civilResistanceCivil resistance in Kosovo: goals and transitionsHoward Clark’s seminal work Civil Resistance in Kosovo, published in 2000, further refined his distinctive approach...
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Published in: civilResistanceNonviolent struggle in KosovoAt a meeting of the Nonviolent Action Research Project on Thursday 13 March, 1997, Howard Clark talked about the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU: wider and deeper with the BalkansThe post-1945 system is today overtaken by events and a new world order is about to emerge. This new—quite...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Kosovo conundrumThe world has seen far more handshakes and meetings between Pristina and Belgrade than in the first years after the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Kosovo United?The debut of the Kosovo national football team in their first ever FIFA sanctioned match was a hugely significant...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The future of the past: why the end of Yugoslavia is still importantA new socialist model is emerging in the western Balkans. Can its political vocabulary transcend the ethno-national...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From Kiev to Kosovo: a critical junctureFrom Ukraine to the Balkans, the last twenty-four years have witnessed political elites preaching democracy while...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Punished by rewards: Elections, EU and the rule of law in KosovoThe violent clashes that marked Kosovo's election last Sunday are just part of a wider problem regarding the rule of...
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Published in: HomeSyria isn’t Kosovo and this isn’t 1999. Not even closeGrasping at vague notions of Kosovo as a ‘good war’ may be expedient - any precedent will do in a pinch. But this...
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Published in: HomeRequiem for a court
What is more important: to dispense justice or to achieve some kind of peace? The court in The Hague wrote the...
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Published in: HomePost-Dayton Bosnia: the other path
The virtuous circle initiated by the Dayton-Paris agreement has turned into a vicious one. As elsewhere in Europe,...
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Published in: HomePerspectives for the western Balkans in light of the ongoing European crisis
All western Balkan states depend heavily on their cooperation with the EU. If the EU crumbles under the weight of...
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Published in: openSecurityIndia and China call off border talks in row over Dalai Lama speech
India and China postpone talks on border disputes at last minute. NATO forces clash with local Serbs in northern...
