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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why Catalonia is not the BalkansAn analysis of where the Spain/Yugoslavia comparison succeeds, and where it fails.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Turning the Macedonian tables: what if the solution to the identity issue is the basis for solving the name of the state?Perhaps an identity-related distinction rather than a geographical one could resolve the dispute more swiftly and on...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Competing conservatisms in Serbia and CroatiaNationalist conservatives are dominating the political scenes in Serbia and Croatia, but how do they compare and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Enter Serbia's ‘Orbán’? Aleksandar Vučić and his catch-all politicsWhy the right-wing Serbian President's appointment of an openly gay woman to the position of Prime Minister is not...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The five 'infections' of the social democratic 'family' in the Western BalkansSocial democracy is failing all across Europe; but it's impotence in the Balkans especially is having serious...
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Published in: 50.50Lesbians at the heart of the movement to end men’s violenceFeminist lesbians have been passionate activists from the beginning of the movement against men’s violence and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The challenge of investigative journalism in the Western BalkansIn the Western Balkans, even the most fundamental and comparatively minute probing into the workings of government...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Yugoslavia, international tribunals and the politics of reconciliationA conversation about the politics of truth and reconciliation in light of the ICTY's acquittal of Vojislav Seselj.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?In Serbia, anniversaries to lamentSeventeen years ago, the Bytyqi brothers from New York were murdered and dumped in a mass grave by Serbian special...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Lessons from Serbia's general electionThe Serbian election results are not as 'ordinary' as they first appear.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The crime, the time, and the politics of ICTY justiceRadovan Karadzic is my relative, on my mother’s side. For years, I felt uneasy about that and my vehement public...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Democracy, 25 years after YugoslaviaJust how democratic are the former Yugoslav countries today?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What happened to the rebellious youth of Yugoslavia?Europe has seen a spate of youth protest over the last few years. The Balkans, however, seems to be lacking...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Belgrade Waterfront - the dark side of 'urban renewal'The development project known as the "Belgrade Waterfront" vividly illustrates the mechanisms of dispossession and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“Wait, the Serbs are now the good guys?”How can Serbia's compassionate treatment of refugees be explained and what does it tell us about the country – and Europe?
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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: Can Europe Make It?Homage to Belgrade: reflections on the 2015 Transeuropa festivalUnlike most British people, it seemed that continental Europeans considered the UK to be not just in Europe, but a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The limits of EuropeopenDemocracy is partnering with European Alternatives to explore the Transeuropa festival. Here, the Co-President...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Looking for European alternatives in BelgradeopenDemocracy is partnering with European Alternatives to explore the Transeuropa festival. Here, two of the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Right-Wing soft power, the refugee crisis and Europe’s failureThe fact that Syriza was crucified more often and with more intensity than Viktor Orbán speaks volumes in itself. It...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
