Articles
The Balkan Wars: 100 Years Later, a History of Violence
A century ago today, the Balkan Wars began. On Oct. 8, 1912, the tiny Kingdom of Montenegro declared war on the weak Ottoman Empire, launching an invasion of...
Tension in the Balkans: Can Voting Be an Act of Aggression?
Nearly 13 years ago, the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo, backed by NATO, defeated Serbia. Now, however, the western Balkans are on edge again. Serbia, still angry...
The Kosovo Test
It's hard to keep track of the Balkans, with all those disputed borders, ethnic hatreds and separatist movements. But the Feb. 17 declaration of independence by...
The Golf Game: Croatia's Approach Shot
Bill Clinton was on the White House putting green on a sunny July day in 1995 when he and his advisers decided to consider military intervention in the Balkans...
The Skeletons of Kurt Waldheim
When I met Kurt Waldheim in Vienna in 1994, the Balkans were doubly at issue, a generation apart. Though I lived in the Austrian capital, I was spending most of...
Thwarted Justice
Upon hearing of Slobodan Milosevic's death, Serbian President Boris Tadic could not find any family members in Milosevic's native Serbia to accept his...
Lighting Up The Balkans
Tobacco giants may be in trouble over litigation and advertising bans around the world, but there are still some places where Marlboro Man can hang his hat. In...
Bullish On the Balkans
The black eye Milen Veltchev was sporting last week was not, he insists, the result of a run-in with a disgruntled taxpayer. Sure, Veltchev has had some awkward...
Withdrawal Pains
Plenty of places in the world have heard the cry "Yankee, go home!" But in the Balkans a great many people might soon be saying, "Yankee, please stay." It would...
'Not Alone in the Balkans'
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002Weeks after the E.U.'s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, launched a mission to persuade Montenegro's leaders to reconsider plans for a...
Photo Essays
LIFE in the Middle East: Photos From Syria in 1940
The ongoing chaos and violence that have come to define the Syrian civil war — a war that has now raged for close to two years, with no signs of abating — not...
