Kosovo Commentary

Balkan War Redux

New players. Same old barricades, shoot-outs and Molotov cocktails.

Terror in the Balkans

Forget whatever flavor of the month is making headlines in the Balkans. Guess where the perpetrators of nearly every terrorist plot of the last twenty years got their start?

Bosnian Lessons

What are the prospects for success in Iraq and Afghanistan? Our nation-building record in Bosnia and Kosovo isn’t encouraging.

Walk Away from the Balkans

Washington should not give foreign-policy priority to Kosovo. Merry responds to Abramowitz and Hooper’s prescriptions.

Settling the Balkans

With an ICJ decision on the legality of Kosovo’s independence looming, the West should step in to help stabilize the region.

Lobbyists

The Armenian genocide dispute is just the latest example of the negative influence of ethnic lobbies on U.S. foreign policy.

Balkanizing Barack

Conventional wisdom advocating more Western intervention in the Balkans is completely wrong. Obama needs to come up with a new approach.

Nobel Peace Prize for War

On his blog Subjective Evaluation, Dimitri K. Simes notes that Martti Ahtisaari, latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, hardly deserves it. As an architect of Kosovo’s independence, he helped cause a war.

Shanghaied by Moscow

Russia’s Georgian adventure is accepted by the SCO, and makes a loser of the EU.

Nasty Nationalism

Western commentators are focusing on the here and now of the Tbilisi-Moscow conflict. But it has deep roots in the nationalist polices of Georgia’s first post-independence president.

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May 26, 2012