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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How to write about the Balkans
A handy guide for journalists on how to write about this mysterious and brooding region.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"Red Star Serbia, never Yugoslavia!" Football, politics and national identity in Serbia
In the years before the war football fans from the former Yugoslavia had a sort of premilitary training in the...
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Published in: HomeRemembering Zoran Djindjic
Ten years ago, on March 12, 2003, a bullet deprived Serbia of a true visionary. Zoran Djindjic’s leadership and...
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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: HomeInternational courts: justice vs politics
The tribunals judging crimes in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia were intended to deliver justice for victims of...
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Published in: HomeQuetta’s enduring savagery: ethnic cleansing or sectarian violence?
Ethnic cleansing is a crime under international law. In the case of Pakistan, we see a cold-hearted and detached...
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Published in: openSecurityThe collapse of Transitional Justice
The acquittal of two Croatian generals by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia undermines...
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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: HomeTruth and Reconciliation: a new political subjectivity for post-Yugoslavs?
'Truth and Reconciliation' is a paradigm entrapped within the limits of the existing state’s institutional...
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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: HomeSerbia’s European integration: strategic goal, or tactical tool?
Serbia has made little progress in its push for European integration in the time available. And whlie Belgrade is...
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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: 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: HomeSerbia after Ratko Mladic: the arrest and the rest
The latest opinion poll on the subject revealed that nearly three-quarters of those surveyed wouldn’t have informed...
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Published in: HomeMemories of a better future in the aftermath of the Srebrenica genocide
It is worth repeating once again that much of the war in Bosnia was a war of two incompatible ideologies:...
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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: HomeSerbia and Kosovo: war of nerves
Since the ICJ ruled Kosovo’s independence legal last year, Serbia’s position on Kosovo has become untenable, both...
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Published in: HomeYugoslavs in the twenty-first century: ‘erased’ people
Two decades after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Balkan countries have a complicated relationship with their...
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Published in: HomeTransnational networks and state-building in the Balkans
Informality allows people to change their immediate circumstances for the better, but it locks the state and society...
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Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job