A Crisis of Wishing
By Walter Laqueur | 14 June 2010 Europe used to be, within the living memory of many of us, the cockpit of world power, prosperity and prestige. Today it is raw material for...
Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Michael Gove: Proud of the British Empire
By Prof. Inderjeet Parmar** | 10 June 2010 Michael Gove, Britain's school's secretary, recently asked pro-British empire historians, Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson, to recast the history curriculum to provide a "narrative"...
Enhancing Peace, Security And Stability in Western Balkans Through EU Membership And Kosovo Issue
By Assist. Prof. Dr Fusun Ozerdem | 01 June 2010 On 1 May 2004, the European Union (EU) undertook its biggest enlargement with ten new Member States. Two more Member States, Bulgaria...
The European Union As A Normative Power And The Western Balkans
By Dr. Dilek Yigit | 01 June 2010 The Western Balkan countries have gone through political and economic reform process in which the European Union (EU) plays a major role. The effectiveness...
The development of a European Union Security Culture – Wishful Thinking or Reality?
By Paula Sandrin | 01 June 2010 This article attempts to answer the following questions: Does EU have the potential to construct a security culture, with common views about threat identification and...
Serbia, BiH optimistic about new chapter in ties
By E. Izmirli, I. Jovanovic, A. Prlenda | 30 April 2010 A new page was turned in relations between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) last week as leaders agreed to...
Why Turks Hate Each Other So Much
By Mustafa Akyol | 13 April 2010 In such a divided country, people tend to think in terms of ‘us’ against ‘them.’ The latter includes not just people with whom you...
De Kermabon: Status Quo Unsustainable in Northern Kosovo
By Linda Karadaku | 12/04/10 The EU has decided to increase its presence in northern Kosovo with the March 26th opening of the EU House office in Mitrovica. Attending the opening was...
An Assessment of the EU`s Role in the Developing World in Relation to Migration
By Esengul Ayaz | 15 April 2010 Abstract The aim of this article is to analyse the EU`s role in the developing worldin relation to migration. To achieve that...
Serbia’s Parliament Apologizes for Srebrenica Massacre
By Stefan Bos | 31 March 2010 Serbia's parliament has apologized for the massacre of 8,000 Muslims by Bosnian-Serb forces in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995. But, the declaration does...
Europe Watch: French Warships to Russia
Scott Lucas | 05 March 2010 On Wednesday Russia, fulfilling an agreement in principle reached four weeks ago, announced that it plans to buy four Mistral-class warships from France. ...
Greek Disease
Inside the New Sick Man of Europe. Nicole Itano 19 February 2010 The first time I tried to apply for my Greek residence permit, there was no one...
Lessons from Ukraine: Recent elections mark a sharp decline in the US influence in the region
Prof. Bulent Gokay 17 February 2010 The recent election results, humiliating defeat of pro-Western Victor Yushchenko, in the Ukraine were a repudiation of the ‘Orange Revolution’ of 2004....
Yanukovych Won. Get Over It.
Christian Caryl 08 February 2010 So Ukraine has elected a new president. The winner is Viktor Yanukovych. Remember him? He was the bad guy in the Orange Revolution, back...
EU chooses unknowns for new top jobs
Honor Mahony EU leaders have chosen Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy to be the first president of the European Council, while UK trade commissioner Catherine Ashton will become...