Introduction
On Being Balkan
Analysis of the Balkan wars of this decade has for too long been characterized by simplistic generalisations and sweeping judgments about the character and mentality of entire peoples, generalisations that would hardly be accepted anywhere else in the world.
Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations chief spokesman on Kosovo 1998–99, International Herald Tribune, 25 August 1998
The Balkans: A Zone of Troubles
The Balkans is seen as a permanently disturbed region on the margins of Europe. Real doubt exists about whether it belongs to Europe at all. During the war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995, British leaders were often heard to say that ‘Europe’ was doing its best to solve a perennial problem; such language betrayed ...
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