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At the Spice Bazaar. Istanbul, Turkey

The Green Door. Sarajevo, Bosnia

By David Binder That was a strange assembly on the fifth floor of Washington’s Woodrow Wilson Center on Dec. 7: about 70 aging intelligence agents, diplomats, academics and the odd journalist – mostly male – brought together by that now arcane topic: Yugoslavia. The group was convened by the Government’s National Intelligence Council and the [...]

By Ioannis Michaletos After the end of the Cold War in 1989, only a small corner in Europe remained divided along an “iron curtain” with its own divided capital. Cyprus, a beautiful island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, is the only state in Europe that has part of its territory (37 percent) occupied and its [...]

The Wedding at Sioni. Tbilisi, Georgia

By Christopher Deliso In a special ceremony held last evening in Skopje, the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs unveiled the government’s newest intellectual medium- Crossroads: the Macedonian Foreign Policy Journal. The new quarterly publication devoted to Macedonian foreign policy and relations with other regions and countries, is the first of its kind and brings Macedonia [...]

In the following interview for Balkanalysis.com, Director of the Athens-based Research Institute for European and American Studies ), John M. Nomikos gives his views on several topics of interest for Southeast European and Balkan affairs, including Turkey and the EU, Balkan security, and a recent defense pact between Greece and Serbia. Relations with Turkey and [...]

Almost that time of year again, comrades! Vevchani, Macedonia

Neoplatonic, if you catch my drift. Lake Mikri Prespa, Greece

By Mehmet Kalyoncu A recent Newsweek article by Zeyno Baran projects a soft coup in Turkey in 2007. Baran suggests that the conditions that paved the way to the end of the Islamist Welfare Party government on February 28, 1997 have once again been materializing, with the current AK Party’s Turkey, so that a similar [...]