Serbia

The leaders of Israel and Serbia share one thing: They’ve perfected the politics of persecution. Here’s why that strategy won’t keep working.

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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.

Peace talks have fallen apart again in the Balkans—but Greece and Macedonia show the proper way forward.

Chinese finance is attractive for good, practical reasons.

Demonstrations against Aleksandar Vucic’s authoritarian government won’t achieve anything until the opposition can present a coherent alternative.

Putin’s plans to run the TurkStream pipeline through the Balkans won’t end well.

Bosnia has a thriving media sector, but those who refuse to become mouthpieces for the government increasingly find themselves in exile or under police protection.

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.

The Russian president’s visit to Serbia was a lovefest—but beyond the odes to Orthodox brotherhood, the two authoritarian leaders are using one another to advance a geopolitical agenda.

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

Why the Kosovo conflict still matters today.

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.

War is politics by other means — and so is the World Cup.

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.

A corruption scandal involving the country’s top club and the national team’s captain has enraged Croatian fans.

The two-state solution is dead. Most one-state solutions are unacceptable to the other side. There is, however, a viable peace plan that appeals to both.

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.