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Balkanalysis.com Announces Summer Hiatus

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.

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News from Balkanalysis.com: Summer Recess, New Books, Essential Articles

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 [...]

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Security and Politics in Albania: A Limitation of Civil Liberties?

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 — [...]

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Terrorist Finance, the Balkans and the Mob: Interview with Loretta Napoleoni

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 [...]

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Greek Banking, Telecom and Technology: Upcoming Prospects for the Key Players

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 [...]

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Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK

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 [...]

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UPI Plagiarizes Balkanalysis.com, Prints Tepid Apology

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 [...]

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