Balkans

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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.

Chinese facial recognition software has arrived in Serbia. It confirms the West’s worst fears about Huawei.

War radicalized the far-right — and nobody stopped them at home.

The small Balkan country hopes to officially join the alliance by year’s end, the foreign minister says in interview.

The region’s genocidal wars are over—but bigots from across the West still flock there for inspiration.

Politicians in this corner of Eastern Europe insist their country is a stage for geopolitical rivalry between the West and Russia—the better to profit from the attention.

For years, the country remained untouched by the global migrant crisis, but now, even in a place where many people were once refugees, tensions are on the rise.

Federations of ethnonational states can become explosive during moments of political liberalization. Abiy Ahmed must tread carefully to avoid a Balkan nightmare.

Voters in the country’s upcoming name-change referendum should not allow nationalist opposition or foreign interference to stand in their way.

Ill-advised land swaps and population transfers won’t bring peace. They’re more likely to revive the bloodshed that plagued the Balkans during the 1990s.

The Trump administration will regret looking for simple solutions to Eastern Europe's territorial disputes.

The national soccer team celebrated its strong World Cup showing alongside a singer who glorifies the country’s fascist past. But it shouldn’t have come as a surprise.

Trump doesn’t think the country is worth defending. Putin has already tried to destabilize it once—the West can’t let it happen again.

The debate over whether to build an official memorial to Sarajevo's Romeo and Juliet, murdered in 1993, exposes the pain and peril of dwelling on the past.

Serbia’s nationalist soccer fans hoped to restore their national pride by beating a Swiss team led by Kosovar stars. Instead, the Kosovo-born Xherdan Shaqiri handed them a humiliating defeat.