... Balkans. He is the author of the forthcoming Extending the European Zone of Peace: Constructing Peace in the Balkans (London: I. B. Tauris). From the Western Balkans to the Greater Balkans Area: The External Conditioning of “Awkward” and “Integrated” States...

...Stephen Blank; Younkyoo Kim Many see the western Balkans as the back yard of Europe. As the promise and reality of regional economic integration has weakened, however, Russia has returned to the area to play its historically important regional role. In the Balkans, a Russian or Russifying project...

...Alexandros P. Mallias The author, the Greek ambassador to the United States, argues that the Balkan countries have made significant strides in economic and security stabilization over the past decade but points to particular challenges, notably in Kosovo and the Former Yugoslav Republic...

... in the Balkans? Ted Galen Carpenter In contrast to the 1990s, when turmoil from the breakup of Yugoslavia domi- nated the security agenda of the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, the early years of the twenty-first century have been rela- tively...

...Doug Bandow For the past decade, the United States has been promoting national transformation in the Balkans. In pushing the independence of Kosovo, Washington policy makers apparently believed that Serbia would acquiesce, most nations would recognize the newest independent state, and Russia would...

...Ivo Josipović The president of the Republic of Croatia analyzes the progress made by his country since the end of the Balkan conflicts. He points to its progress toward European integration and provides advice for Croatia's neighbors on how to heal past wounds by looking to a future of cooperation...

.../managing editor of Mediterranean Quarterly . The Milosevic and Islamization Factors: Writing Contemporary History in the Balkans Robert J. Pranger Looking back on Yugoslavia’s breakup and the subsequent warfare involving Bosnian Muslims, Croats...

...Ted Galen Carpenter Misleading propaganda and the creation of false history were pervasive and corrosive during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Both the Clinton administration and the news media were responsible for the disreputable situation. And unlike the discrediting of the Bush administration’s...

...Filip Kovacevic Victor Roudometof: Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans . Westport, Connecticut:Greenwood Press, 2001. 304 pages. ISBN 0-313-31949-9. $72.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Filip Kovacevic is a political...

...Fatos Nano Fatos Nano is prime minister of Albania. Mediterranean Affairs,Inc. 2004 Albania, the Balkans, and the Process of Transatlantic Integration Fatos Nano In this essay I discuss contemporary Albania and the critical role...

... assignments. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Mediterranean Quarterly . Revisiting History and Forgotten Balkans Issues Lucien N. Nedzi Editor’s note: When the Cold War was hot and Washington was engulfed in the post-Watergate turmoil, there were a few...

...Constantine P. Danopoulos Vassilis K. Fouskas: Zones of Conflict: US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle East . London: Pluto, 2003. 177 pages. ISBN 0-7453-2030-9. $24.95. Constantine P. Danopoulos is an associate editor of Mediterranean Quarterly and professor...

...Charles V. Peña 2005 Charles V. Peña is the director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute and author of the forthcoming book Winning the Un-War:Strategy in the War on Terrorism . Al Qaeda: The Balkans Connection Charles V. Peña...

... Cascading Human Consequences of NATO’s War in the Balkans Joan McQueeney Mitric In the period since June 1999, when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization declared victory in its high-tech bombing war against...

...Constantine P. Danopoulos Van Coufoudakis, Harry J. Psomiades, and Andre Gerolymatos, editors: Greece and the New Balkans: Challenges and Opportunities . New York:Pella Publishing Company, 1999. 478 pages. ISBN 0-918618-72-X. $25(paperback). Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000...

...Sol Schindler Mark Mazower: The Balkans . New York: Modern Library, 2000. 176 pages. ISBN 0-679-64087-8. $19.95. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2001 Sol Schindler is a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer who writes and lectures on international affairs. MQ 12.3-09 Reviews 7/20/01...

...Ted Galen Carpenter Washington’s policy in the Balkans has been a failure for more than two decades. Beginning with the US-led military interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo during the 1990s, the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies have made difficult situations worse...

... of the graduate program in international relations at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. The Face of Kosovar Albanian Nationalism: A Violent and Volatile Transformation of the Balkan Political Landscape Donald A. Graczyk and Symeon A. Giannakos...

...David Binder Talk of a “greater” this or that Balkan nation-state has subsided in recent years as the region experienced the creation of ever more minirepublics—a total of eight on the territory of former Yugoslavia. This trend toward fragmentation was initiated by petty nationalists and fostered...

... the nuclear proliferation problem that dominates the first part of the book, and she concludes the narrative as an agent for change. Hope in an age of extremism. DOI 10.1215/10474552-2008-040 Reviews  151 Christopher Deliso: The Coming Balkan...