...Tamara P. Trošt The drawn-out process of applying for European Union membership has encouraged cynicism in Serbia and other Western Balkan states about the value of becoming part of the bloc. Local elites have instrumentalized the accession process, making a show of superficial compliance with EU...

...-Herzegovina Bosnia Serbia Mostar Dayton Peace Agreement nationalism ethnonationalism Yugoslavia Ratko Mladić consociational power-sharing international community 102 [T]hrough the complicated, long-term effects of converging postwar and post- socialist forces, the Bosnian state continues...

... refugees trauma diaspora political mobilization Kosovo Albanians Palestinians Bosnia Serbia Syria PERSPECTIVE The global refugee crisis has raised pressing questions about how to manage hundreds of thousands of people on the move and alleviate their suffering. These problems are mag- nified...

...Jelena Subotic Croatia has bought its ticket to Brussels, and Montenegro could be next, while Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Kosovo are stuck in a crowded, smoky waiting room. © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California Jelena Subotic...

... reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California Kosova Serbia UNMIK SJCRKC Balkans Islamism Albania Muslims Numan Balic Fethullah Gülen Even as Western societies worry about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, the international community s ill-conceived policies...

...Lenard J. Cohen The process of democratic consolidation in Serbia has begun in earnest. Equally important, the more virulent xenophobic and authoritarian aspects of Serbian political culture have waned considerably. … For the foreseeable future, the specious superpatriotism and discredited soft...

... The Regents of the University of California criminal tribunal Kosovo Liberation Army Kostunica Milosevic opposition Otpor! protests Serbia Yugoslavia 109 The political scene in Serbia changed dramat-ically in the fall of 2000 when Yugoslav Pres-ident Slobodan Milosevic lost the September...