By David Binder*
In the following piece, the author reflects on the life and legacy of Milovan Djilas, a key founding member of Communist Yugoslavia who was later imprisoned by that same regime because of the excessive freedom of his ideas. Djilas is remembered today for numerous books and occasional writings, and also a great quote: [...]
By Lidija Jularić*
Sometimes it seems that in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina, everyone knows everything about everyone. The position of Sarajevo itself in some way implies that this is a city in which social control is very strong. It lies in a long narrow valley surrounded by wonderful little hills that are [...]
By Carl Savich
When discussing the opposing claims of Serbs and Albanians over Kosovo, its history and its rightful future status, mass media reports often include the obligatory sentence about Kosovo being “Serbia’s historic and culture heartland.’ Usually, the unstated implication for including the phrase is that the Serbs are unfortunate and delusional nostalgics, living in [...]
By Ioannis Michaletos
Greece is a country of thousands of islands, islets and rocks scattered around the Aegean archipelagos and the Ionian Sea. What most people don’t know is that plenty of those are privately owned, and that their landlords are eager to develop them with the help of real estate agents or else sell them [...]
By Ferid Muhic*
It was during the dying days of World War I, and the Austrian army was retreating from the Thessalonica front, up through the mountains of northwestern Macedonia. The fate that befell them remains almost unknown today, with the author’s chance conversion with an elderly Italian man in 1970 representing perhaps the sole remaining [...]
By John Demopoulos*
Energy diplomacy has come to dominate the foreign policy agenda for countries on Europe’s periphery and the Balkans is no exception. As the West seeks to strengthen and diversify its energy supplies, the region has become awash with proposals for new transit routes to ease the flow of resources from the Caspian. [...]
