A colleague wonders about the obvious paradox: the Empire is imposing unification in Bosnia while supporting separatism in Kosovo. This has...

By way of a friend in faraway New Zealand, I received this afternoon an opinion piece from the New Zealand Herald , in which the author ar...

One of the reasons I don't even try writing fiction is that reality is often much stranger. A story involving three months of negotiatio...

John Laughland has an excellent and informative piece in the most recent Spectator , revealing that the idea of European unity was champion...

The indomitable Julia Gorin reports that Tom Lantos (D-Ca.), sponsor of the latest House resolution supporting the independence of "Ko...

Andreas Zobel, Germany's Ambassador to Serbia, was apparently absent the day they taught diplomacy in school. Following the examples of ...

When the Izetbegovic regime picked a fight with the Bosnian Serbs fifteen years ago (April 6, 1992), one of the immediate results was a div...

Last week in Balkan Express , I challenged the Albanian argumentum ad atrocitas for the independence of Kosovo - the notion that, because o...

In July 2004, I posted on the Antiwar.com blog some translated excerpts from an interview with Morton Abramowitz, published in the Serbian ...

Roger Cohen, one of the "star reporters" of the Bosnian War and a columnist for the International Herald Tribune , apparently wrot...

During the 1992-95 civil war in Bosnia, hundreds of Islamic militants from all over the world came to fight for the "beleaguered Bosnia...

Simon Tisdall of the Guardian echoes the blustery bloviations of Richard Holbrooke from Tuesday’s Washington Post , seeking to blame Russia ...

Last week, a Brit named Ed Alexander posted on his blog ("Balkan Baby") an account of his 2006 visit to a Mitrovica cafe, owned b...

I've seen many terrible things since the outbreak of Yugoslav Succession Wars in 1991, whether live or on television screens, in newspap...

So I'm a little behind the times (which is ironic; it'll be self-explanatory in a second), but I just saw Bruce Sterling 's op-e...

Here's a Photoshop parody I received from a friend, via email. It's the cover of a faux-magazine called Les Jacobins , with a taglin...

My commentary on Monday's ICJ verdict clearing Serbia of genocide charges will be up on Antiwar.com tomorrow; in the meantime, there is...

Slobodan Antonić writes in Politika (Serbian original here ): ... My "favorite" is the argument that says, "This isn't e...

I've been writing columns about the Balkans for almost eight years now, and have always made the utmost effort to document every claim ...

I've read (and written) many pieces about the American Empire, but this one , today at LewRockwell.com, strikes me as possibly the very ...