The outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Michael Polt, has been a stereotypical Imperial envoy: ignorant, arrogant, abrasive, disdainful, boo...

Anyone who followed the 78-day war of aggression the North Atlantic Treaty Organization waged against what was then the Federal Republic of ...

Following a report in the Bosnian magazine Fokus, Serbian officials have requested an investigation into allegations that UN envoy Martti A...

I have resisted temptation to write about the Emperor's Albania trip. I had nothing to add to Neil Clark's brilliant piece , nor was...

Much as it pains me to say a kind word about Richard Holbrooke, the chief architect of the Dayton Accords, there's no escaping the fact ...

Kurt Waldheim, former Austrian president and UN Secretary-General, died yesterday. In the Balkans, he will be remembered primarily as a Nazi...

George Walker Bush the Lesser, Emperor-Aspiring of the Known Universe, Decider, Defender of Democracy, Liberator, Light of Lights, Overmind ...

(originally posted on Сиви Соко , May 9. 2007) The past few months of political intrigue around the new Serbian government are one of the be...

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 ...