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Published in: openSecurityEthnicised justice and dealing with the past in ex-YugoslaviaThere was much hope in the international community that the Hague war-crimes tribunal on former Yugoslavia, allied...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Bosnia, and vanishing European leadershipBosnian citizens' protest against corruption and misgovernance also reveals the deep flaws of the country's...
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Published in: 50.50Breaking up with lame: protests in BosniaOn the fifth day of ongoing demonstrations in Sarajevo, a routine is establishing itself and there is a feeling of...
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Published in: 50.50Slavenka Drakulić: violence, memory, and the nationWriter and journalist Slavenka Drakulić reflects on the use of sexual violence in war, the psyche in conflict, and...
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Published in: 50.50Will homophobia rain off Serbia's parade?
Gay pride week begins September 21, but it is unclear whether the Serbian government is willing to expend the...
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Published in: HomeEurope and its 'midnight children'
Croatia's accession to the European Union highlights both the union's continued appeal and its current malaise. This...
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Published in: 50.50LGBT violence in the Balkans
Throughout the Balkans, LGBT advocates and their supporters face violence, cancelled Pride parades, and unresponsive...
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Published in: HomeSerbia's election: more defeat than victory
The elevation of Tomislav Nikolić to Serbia's presidency, unexpected by many observers, owes much to the political...
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Published in: HomeBosnia: blood, honey, and war's legacy
A film portrayal of the horrors of systematic rape during Bosnia's war of 1992-95 highlights the victims' suffering...
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Published in: HomeAnte Marković: the last Yugoslav leader
A sustained effort to reform Yugoslavia before the country was drowned in tide of senseless nationalism has been...
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Published in: HomeICTY vs Mladić-Hadžić: good defence, better history
The arrests of the wartime Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladić and the Croatian Serb president Goran Hadžić are a...
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Published in: HomeRatko Mladic and justice: another route
The effect of the international tribunal where those accused of crimes during the Balkan wars face trial is to...
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Published in: HomeRatko Mladic’s arrest and international justice
The forthcoming trial in The Hague of the arrested Serb warlord is an occasion to assess the achievements of the...
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Published in: HomeBosnia: what course after the storm?
Between the advocates of interventionism, who think that only action from the international community can prevent...
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Published in: HomeRatko Mladić's arrest: a start, but let it not obscure how much more is needed for justice
Poisonous ethno-nationalist political rhetoric, genocide denial and the celebration of war-time leaders are still...
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Published in: HomeBosnia’s politics of paralysis
Bosnia’s tenth election since the end of the war of 1992-95 highlights the damaging influence of a post-war...
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Published in: HomeKosovo, law and politics
The International Court of Justice ruling on Kosovo’s independence offers the European Union a vital opportunity to...
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Published in: HomeKosovo, Serbia and Bosnia: after the ICJ
The International Court of Justice ruling on Kosovo’s declaration of independence benefits Serbia too. But what of...
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Published in: HomeSrebrenica, fifteen years on
The dignified commemorations of the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in July 1995 retain their integrity and human core,...
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Published in: HomeMidnight in Belgrade, dusk in Brussels
Europe’s symbolic effort to prevent Yugoslavia’s breakup in mid-1991 has a lesson for the continent today, says...
