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The Balkan state of Bosnia-Herzegovina is on the verge of what analysts warn is its most serious crisis since the end of the Bosnian war in 1995, in which thousands were killed and horrendous...
Tension in the western Balkans, which has been troubled by ethnic tensions since the wars of the 1990s, is becoming an increasing concern for the EU and Nato.
Serbia responded with a brutal crackdown against ethnic Albanians. This ended in 1999 with a Nato bombing campaign against Serbia, between March and June. Serbian forces withdrew from Kosovo -...
With Kosovo and Serbia embroiled in border skirmishes, and interethnic tensions rising throughout the region, forces of political polarization, ethnonationalism, and secessionist movements are posing a growing threat to stability and peace in the Western Balkans.
The Bosnian Serb leadership’s recent step towards legal secession from the rest of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in combination with an escalation of violence in northern Kosovo, are threatening to...
The institutions that prevented a return to the bloody conflicts of the 1990s are failing, and it is time for a new initiative to identify solutions that will prevent new waves of mass migration, failing states on the EU’s doorstep, and power vacuums to be exploited by foreign adversaries.
2024 has already plunged the Western Balkans into a maelstrom of complex developments. Serbia’s post-election protests, the precarious Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, and the Kremlin-aligned Dodik’s paramilitary parade all raise critical questions about the region’s stability.
this report, in providing insights on geopolitical challenges and security issues in the Western Balkans, will spur policies to promote peace and stability in the region and avert further threats to its security posture in
A quarter century after the end of a brutal civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, tensions are once again on the rise and threatening to tear apart the multi-ethnic government. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: More...
Wouldn’t Balkan leaders serve their people better by concentrating on the region’s chronic economic and social problems, aggravated by the pandemic and Russia’s attack on Ukraine?