Balkanalysis.com

About Us

Balkanalysis.com is one of the leading independent news and analysis groups on the Balkans today, online since 2003 and utilizing writers and researchers from regional countries as well as from elsewhere in Europe and the United States, plus strategic partner firms. At present, our coverage focuses primarily on Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Serbia and Kosovo, though other countries and supranational topics are covered too.

Our richly-varied audience includes members of the diplomatic and non-governmental sectors, the security services, the business world, Balkan political and media monitors, Balkan residents, as well as general-interest readers and members of the foreign Balkan diaspora communities.

These readers have come to value our articles for their accuracy and insights- qualities which enhance the decision-making process and information-gathering activities of those having a professional relationship with the region.

Indeed, Balkanalysis.com has become one of the premier sources of independent, objective open-source intelligence on the Balkans available online today. Located on the right-hand side of the page, Balkanalysis.com Security and Intelligence Briefs provide a unique and vital range of information in these fields, gleaned both from open sources and our own sources in the field.

Important note: The ONLY correct name of this website is “Balkanalysis.com”- and certainly neither “Balkan Analysis” nor “Balkananalysis.com.” We do not own the latter domain name, and therefore any correspondence sent to any address having that extension will not be received by us.

About the Director: Balkanalysis.com director Christopher Deliso has lived and traveled widely in SE Europe and has a master’s degree with distinction in Byzantine Studies from Oxford University (1999). He is the author of several books on the region, including Culture and Customs of Serbia & Montenegro, The Coming Balkan Caliphate: The Threat of Radical Islam to Europe and the West and Hidden Macedonia: The Mystic Lakes of Ohrid and Prespa. He has also co-authored several travel guides from Lonely Planet, including the 2008 editions of Greece, Bulgaria, and the Greek Islands.

Since 2001, he has published many articles on Balkan politics, economics, security issues, travel, history and culture in US and world newspapers, analysis firms such as Janes and the Economist Intelligence Unit, and in numerous magazines and websites. Aside from being a travel writer for Lonely Planet, he writes hotel reviews for British hotel consultancy Travel Intelligence and articles for Bulgarian web magazine Balkan Travellers.

Providing a free service for readers costs money, effort and time. Readers are welcome to show their appreciation of Balkanalysis.com by patronizing our advertisers, and especially by donating towards our research; the Amazon.com Honor Program provides a secure, quick and simple way to do so.

Finally, related former blogs no longer updated, but for the record, are Balkanalysis.com Rapid Reactions, and European Oil & Gas Pipeline News.

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