Balkans

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• 2/6/2023
  

  Historians are Being Asked to Spin Simple Stories of Nationalism; The Past Won't Cooperate

  by Joe Djordjevski

  Nationalist forces in both Bulgaria and North Macedonia want to use historians to reach a definitive conclusion to debates over the territory's ethnic and national identity. But from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the fall of Communism, those questions have been complex, difficult, and ambiguous. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/2/2023
  

  Croatian Filmmaker Seeks to Polish Image of Late Leader by Casting... Kevin Spacey?

  Franjo Tudjman, whose post-Yugoslavia brand of ethnonationalism has been harshly criticized, remains a favorite of the Croatian right. It's unclear how casting Kevin Spacey to play him will help polish his image, however. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/24/2022
  

  The Threat of the US Becoming an "Anocracy" Again? Civil War

  by Barbara F. Walter

  Anocracies combine the superficial trappings of democracy, like elections, with the suppression of civil liberties and the press and the hardening of factions in place of a common civic culture. By some measures, the US is now an anocracy, like Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. 

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• 1/20/10
  

  The Cost of Corruption in the Balkans

  by Abrana Xharra and Alon Ben-Meir

  And how it's impeding European Union membership. 

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  11-11-18
  

  Trump Confused the Baltics With Balkans

  Le Monde report says he accused confused leaders of starting Yugoslav wars.