August 3, 2008
Balkanalysis.com would like to announce to its readers that the website will be going on annual summer hiatus from today, August 3rd. The publishing of new articles will resume next month.
August 16, 2007
Balkanalysis.com would like to inform its readers that the site will be on summer recess through September. Look for new articles and photos to be posted then. Until we’sre back, readers may like to check out two new books from Balkanalysis.com director Christopher Deliso, and to peruse the archive- as well as new hand-picked essential [...]
March 25, 2007
By Ioannis Michaletos and Stavros Markos* The government in Tirana has, over the past few months, imposed new domestic security policies in order to curb an increase in criminal networks and their activities. At the same time, international bodies, namely the EU and NATO — entities which Albania wishes to join in the future — [...]
April 17, 2006
In this new and exclusive interview with Italian economist and author Loretta Napoleoni, Balkanalysis.com readers are treated to expert insights on the issues of terrorist financing, organized crime in Europe and the Balkans, and the intractable intertwinement of the terrorist economy and the legitimate one. Loretta Napoleoni is the author of several books, most recently [...]
February 9, 2006
By Ioannis Michaletos In Greece as in the wider world, the banking, telecommunication and tech sectors make up the main driving force in economic development. In our post- industrial era, these services across their entire spectrum dictate to a large degree the stock market, social norms and key trends, and assume pivotal importance when assessing [...]
January 16, 2006
Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK by Alexei Monroe, with foreword by Slavoj Zizek MIT Press (2005), 400 pp. Reviewed by Mark White* In 1987, Neue Slowenische Kunst, or NSK – an obscure art collective made up of several art and performance groups from Slovenia, a Yugoslav republic still four years from independence – was commissioned [...]
November 21, 2005
On Nov. 15, 2005, United Press International (UPI) printed a devious, half-hearted apology to Balkanalysis.com, in the form of a re-written original story with an inconspicuous addendum. This unfortunate decision raises serious concerns about the news giant’s journalistic integrity, arrogance and damage-control-at-all-costs instinct. In concluding the above-linked article on testimony given in late January 2005 [...]
