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By Dr. Darragh Farrell* By the beginning of next month it should be known who the next High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will be. It is probably safe to assume that the next High Representative will also be the last, despite the fact that the previous two holders of the post, Christian Schwarz-Schilling [...]

By Apostolis Karabairis Internal correlations and trends in Bosnia and Herzegovina have changed considerably over the past few years. However, contrary to the early post-war years, academic and press analysis has covered much less the recent developments in the country, following the interest and policy shift from Clinton’s democratization doctrine of the 1990s to Bush’s [...]

(Balkanalysis.com Research Service)- The first New Year’s gift of 2009 to the citizens of many Balkan countries has come in the form of the season’s first significant snowfall, blanketing large areas in Macedonia, northern Greece, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria and Albania. In the Macedonian capital of Skopje, some 16cm of snow has accumulated in the past [...]

Nicky Gardner, editor of hidden europe magazine (www.hiddeneurope.co.uk) reports from Pocitelj in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The photo, this week’s Photo of the Week (‘Geometries’, Pocitelj, Bosnia) is the work of Susanne Kries. The international community has always looked for good news from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Like Bush beleaguered in Iraq, ever-looking for any glimmer of [...]

By Christopher Deliso A lengthy and controversial administrative review carried out by Bosnian Muslim authorities has concluded, with the announcement that the citizenships of almost 400 foreigners, most of them former mujahedin, will be revoked and that those involved will be deported. However, the announcement appears to be a merely symbolic measure, as the ex-jihadis [...]

By Lidija Jularic 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 Dejan Stjepanovic Introduction The relation between the Young Turk Revolution and the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (1908) is particularly interesting in light of the postcolonial debate. Most intriguing is the fact that unlike the case of Bulgaria (an emerging nation-state) which declared independence from the Ottoman Empire the same month in which Bosnia-Herzegovina was [...]

By Robert Leifels* The politicians and intellectuals have missed the boat regarding the death of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt and label their Wall Street Opening Bell-like screaming as a rush to judgment. It is quite natural for them to worship at the shrine [...]

(Balkanalysis.com Research Service)- Although they are small, for students of propaganda the images that emerge when one selects various topic headings on the Hague Tribunal’s official website speak volumes about the international court’s slick PR and ingrained biases. The overall perception one gets from the selection of photos is that of a rock-solid institution, presided [...]

(Balkanalysis.com Research Service)- Judge Patrick Robinson immediately shut down a Western journalist on the Hague Tribunal witness stand last week, when she disclosed having seen Osama bin Laden waltz into the office of late Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic in November 1994. Just as veteran British journalist Eve-Ann Prentice, who covered the Yugoslav conflicts for the [...]