Balkans

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In "McMafia," author Misha Glenny takes us on a startling tour of the new international underworld, documenting the hidden costs of an unregulated global free market.
By Laura Miller Apr 16, 2008

  • Feminism and intervention, Part XXXVIII

    How to parse another milestone in a very different war?
    By Chris Colin November 10, 2006

  • Safe area America

    Graphic novelist Joe Sacco goes back to Sarajevo with his powerful new book "The Fixer" -- and talks about why the entire U.S. population should be tried for war crimes.
    By Christopher Farah December 5, 2003

  • Robert Kaplan

    The controversial "Balkan Ghosts" put him on the map. His opinionated, darkly seductive reports of an unraveling world have kept him there.
    By Laura Rozen April 17, 2001

  • Macedonia on the brink

    Colin Powell urges peace, but a walk through the capital city reveals a country on the verge of civil war.
    By Laura Rozen April 13, 2001

  • The invention of peace

    A leading military scholar talks about what caused the world wars, why Kissinger was a true peacemaker and whether peace is incompatible with human nature.
    By Suzy Hansen April 12, 2001

  • Waiting for Slobo

    Has Milosevic really been arrested? While The Hague waits to try him, a ragged troop of loyalists still stands behind the fallen dictator.
    By Alex Todorovic March 31, 2001

  • Radioactive fallout

    Did exposure to American depleted-uranium-tipped weapons cause the cancer deaths of some European peacekeepers who served in the Balkans?
    By Laura Rozen January 12, 2001

  • Clinton grows a spine

    The president surprises his critics by, at the last possible moment, signing on to the treaty for an International Criminal Court.
    By Lawrence Weschler January 5, 2001

  • Peacekeeping's pitfalls

    Growing tensions along the border between Kosovo and southern Serbia could mark the first challenge for President-elect Bush's foreign policy team.
    By Laura Rozen December 22, 2000

  • Serbia's culture shock

    With the media liberated from Milosevic's control, the nation begins to face its demons -- but propagandists and journalists are in a tug of war.
    By Laura Rozen October 31, 2000

  • Propping up the walls

    As international support for Kosovar independence wanes, hatred still seethes between Albanians and Serbs. And the U.N. oversees their division.
    By Richard Blow October 23, 2000

  • Milosevic fights back

    The resurgence of loyalists to the deposed Yugoslav president brings Belgrade back to the brink of danger.
    By Laura Rozen October 12, 2000

  • The long road back for Yugoslavia

    With the revolutionary fervor subsiding, new President Vojislav Kostunica must now figure out how to govern a country where Slobodan Milosevic is still a political force.
    By Laura Rozen October 9, 2000

  • Serbia is liberated, Milosevic disappears

    A long-suffering people celebrates the apparent end of the regime. But where has their dictator gone?
    By Laura Rozen October 5, 2000

  • The ABCs of Balkan nationalism

    Do the recent elections in Yugoslavia and Croatia mark a shift away from the psychology that led the region into conflict?
    By Lawrence Weschler October 5, 2000

  • Bringing down the Butcher of Belgrade

    Serbian cops are standing back while strikers shut down Yugoslavia, but will Milosevic accept a bloodless defeat?
    By Laura Rozen October 3, 2000

  • Election mud wrestling

    Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic claims no candidate received a majority in this week's elections, but opposition leaders who believe their candidate won are taking to the streets.
    By Laura Rozen September 27, 2000

  • Election offensive

    Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has called presidential elections for later this month, but his actions show he intends to hold on to power.
    By Laura Rozen September 6, 2000

  • Outlaws in an outlaw nation

    With Yugoslav election time approaching, Serbian activists face a new wave of repression as they try to fight the Milosevic regime from within.
    By Laura Rozen September 6, 2000

  • Bread instead of soldiers

    On the front lines of war, humanitarian-aid workers do the work of diplomats -- but some say they should stay away from politics.
    By Laura Rozen August 7, 2000

  • They think I'm a spy!

    An American in Belgrade finds that real life isn't nearly as interesting as the one her Serbian neighbors imagine for her.
    By Laura Rozen July 24, 2000

  • Milosevic's media blackout

    The Serbian president turns out the lights on the independent media and Serb protesters clash with police.
    By Laura Rozen May 18, 2000

  • Battle without blood

    Michael Ignatieff talks about the poison of nationalism, the politics of fear and the strange future of war.
    By Max Garrone May 4, 2000

  • Paranoid city

    Belgrade is gripped by rumors that NATO is about to begin bombing again.
    By Laura Rozen March 15, 2000
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