Balkans

Cyberattacks in North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey reveal that government defenses are weak—and many NATO members are at risk.

Western and regional powers are more divided than they were during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, but they can still exert influence to prevent the fragmentation of Ethiopia’s federal system.

Fixing Trump’s mistakes in the region will be easy. Avoiding Obama’s will be much harder.

Janez Jansa has built a powerful propaganda network with backing from Hungary.

The administration’s see-no-evil diplomacy has produced a dangerous unraveling across the region.

The White House is hosting another summit on the Balkans—while failing to apply its most promising model for solving the conflict.

The Trump administration is hosting Balkans leaders this week to culminate a peace process that’s gone wrong from the start.

North Macedonia just became NATO’s newest and weakest member. That makes it a ripe target for interference.

Beijing is using the coronavirus pandemic to expand its influence into the EU’s backyard.

As the coronavirus pandemic raises tensions, the Trump administration’s strategy of bowing to Serbia’s authoritarian president is coming completely undone.

But the Serbian president says “we need more talks” with the former province, which insists that Belgrade recognize its independence.

Russian expansionism is overhyped and Huawei isn’t the untouchable behemoth we think it is. Here are our top Debunkers of 2019.

After the EU snub, the United States needs to step up in the region.

Peter Handke’s greatest aesthetic strength is his biggest intellectual weakness: the absence of all political and psychological depth.

In the Balkan wars, women were targets. In postwar governments, they’ve been pushed out of sight.

Historical feuds still threaten to stop Eastern European countries from joining the EU.

Two decades after brokering peace in the former Yugoslavia, Washington plans to try to restart talks between Serbia and Kosovo.