Balkans Articles

Twenty-two years on, the lesson from the massacre at Srebrenica is that hatred creep up on us in stages – and at each stage we have the opportunity to stop it, writes Kate Green MP Next week, on 11 July, we commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the terrible massacre...

2014 is the last year of British military involvement in Afghanistan and the end of a long phase of ‘nation-building’ efforts since 9/11. While David Cameron has unconvincingly declared ‘mission accomplished’, in reality the next Labour government will wrestle with an...

Is the EU enlargement process increasingly political? Felicity Slater reports from the workshop that addressed this issue at the PES Re:new Convention. Political ideals and realities have always shaped the course of the European project. To imply that it has been...

It is now 12 years since the fighting in Kosovo stopped. It started briefly again this week as Serbs killed a Kosovo police officer in a dispute over illegal Serb imports into the country. Now US and French soldiers have turned up to turn off the Serb aggression....