The Balkan Human Tragedy Continues
Ted Galen CarpenterThe Associated Press reports that officials from Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro are planning a “donors’ conference” next year to raise money for civilians displaced by the...
View ArticleNation Building Fails in the Balkans
Gordon N. BardosThe latest news from the Balkans sounds strangely familiar.In Bosnia, the three leading nationalist parties have won the elections, and the country is mired in political and...
View ArticleSpectre of Separatism Haunts Europe
Gordon N. BardosThe spectre of separatism seems to be hovering over Europe these days. From Belgium, Britain and the Balkans to Catalonia and the Caucasus, regional independence or autonomy movements...
View ArticleSyria and the Kosovo Precedent
Ted Galen CarpenterThose who have long thirsted for a U.S.-led military intervention in Syria now have a new justification. The apparent use of chemical weapons in that country’s civil war has produced...
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