October 16, 2009
A special note from Balkanalysis.com Director Chris Deliso. Apologies in advance for the length of this special notification. However, if you are a regular reader of this website, or a prospective contributor or institutional partner, I would be most grateful to have a moment of your time to read it. It marks an important moment [...]
July 25, 2009
Balkanalysis.com would like to inform its readers that the website will be on annual summer hiatus from now until mid-September. During this period, we will also be experimenting with some new programming and design solutions in our continuing quest to provide you with a wider and better variety of services. Readers can feel free to [...]
July 18, 2009
By Ioannis Michaletos The South Stream pipeline project is a complex technical endeavor which entails a wide array of factors, including that of environmental protection. The present assessment concerning South Stream’ss environmental impact reveals opposing views from multiple actors vying for answers, concessions and influence alike. Furthermore, the South Stream project in terms of environmental [...]
June 14, 2009
By Alex G. Papadopoulos, Ph.D. Department of Geography DePaul University, Chicago This short paper on Byzantine maps and geographic science was born out of a conversation with Christopher Deliso, director of Balkanalysis.com. We agreed that there is a need to look at southeastern Europe – the Balkans – from a spatial (geographical) analytical perspective. Our [...]
January 13, 2009
By Christopher Deliso* Despite several recent reports suggesting that radical Islam in Kosovo no longer represents a significant security threat, the beating of a prominent Albanian imam by Drenica-area Wahhabi Muslims indicates that the challenge within the Muslim community – the real target of the foreign-funded extremists – persists. The disproportional yet unexplained influence of [...]
April 12, 2008
By David Binder* Serbia is both blessed and cursed. So, too, are those blessed and cursed that are forced by geography or other circumstance to deal with Serbia. They usually become entrapped. The reason is obvious. As defined in the last century by Jovan Cvijic, the preeminent Serbian geographer of the Balkans, “We built our [...]
