China and the Balkans
The presence of China in the Balkans is not new. During the years of the Cold War, China closely cooperated first with Albania and then with Yugoslavia. In fact, Albania was one of the key initiators...
View ArticleVictoria Nuland and the Balkans
With regard to the production of geopolitical discourses, the field of critical geopolitics distinguishes between the “intellectuals of statecraft” and the “dissident intellectuals”. The intellectuals...
View ArticleStoltenberg in Belgrade, Biden in Zagreb: The U.S.-NATO diplomatic offensive...
The recent visits of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Belgrade and U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden to Zagreb within a week of each other show that both the U.S. and NATO are in the process of...
View ArticleWill the Next U.N. Secretary-General Come From the Balkans?
Seventy years ago, the organization of United Nations was officially founded in San Francisco, the city I live in at this time. A few days ago, I went to see the mural commemorating this event in the...
View ArticleUnfinished Business in the Balkans: Biden in Belgrade and Prishtina
From the very first days of the Obama administration, the vice president Joe Biden has taken over running the U.S. foreign policy agenda for the former Communist bloc in Europe. This self-appointed...
View ArticleLiving Dangerously: The Recent Arms Race in the Balkans
It is hardly a secret that the most vocal advocates of NATO expansion into East-Central Europe were the U.S. weapons manufacturers and their lobbyists. For instance, one of the founders of the U.S....
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