...Filip Kovacevic Filip Kovacevic is a professor at the University of Montenegro. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Montenegro and the Politics of Postcommunist Transition: 1990 to 2006 Filip Kovacevic I was promoted to be a major...

... Eastern European states, this essay argues that NATO’s successful eastern expansion has been due to the EU’s encouragement of these states’ NATO accession, not because of their enthusiasm for membership in the union. This was the case in Montenegro. Despite the country’s lack of external threats...

... (2) Monaco Jordan (2) Greece Montenegro Mauritania (2) Italy (2) Morocco (2) Malta Israel Portugal Lebanon Slovenia (2) Libya Spain (2...

.... Croatia and Albania signed accession agreements with NATO in July 2008. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) would like to follow but has long been blocked by Greece, which disputes its right to the name Macedonia. Along with Croatia, Albania, and Montenegro, it is classed...

... Kosovo as the home of its current inhabitants, retains its significance for Serbia. Not only has Serbia repeatedly lost territory over the past two decades —  the last to exit being Montenegro in June 2006 — the possibility for fur- ther shrinkage remains open, accentuating anxiety around border...

... Such attention reflects the fact that incumbent members (Bulgaria and Romania) as well as the prospec- tive members (Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia/Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Albania) of the Euro-club all come from the region. At the same time, it also takes into account Turkey’s EU candidacy, which...

... of the 195 existing countries counted on most lists). So there is still room to grow, and its feelers stretch out with NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP, launched in 1994) and other incentives. Thus Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia- Herzegovina, the three bad boys of the Balkans, joined the PfP in 2006...

... the limitations of the Ottoman constitution. We shall work jointly to forge the existing bonds between the Albanians and the Ottoman state. . . . In case that concessions were to be made to Serbia, Montenegro and Greece at Albanian expense we are determined to defend our country with our lives and amend...

... Showcase,” Transitions Online, 22 March 2004, at www.tol.cz. 4. Amnesty International, “Serbia and Montenegro (Kosovo/Kosova) ‘Prisoners in Our Own Homes’: Amnesty International’s Concerns for the Human Rights of Minorities in Kosovo/Kosova” (London: Amnesty International, 2003), introduction...

... standing upright in cruise missile cross-­hairs — left behind regions dangerously polluted with dust, shards, and larger particles from depleted-­uranium (DU) ordnance casings after what had already been a decade of fighting in Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Kosovo, Vojvodina, Slovenia...

... in this column, namely, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, FYROM, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, and Kosovo.23 Turkey often is also grouped as a Balkan state (at least its European part), and of course it is grouped as a Mediterranean country. Slovenia, on the contrary, is not listed in the table...

... Since the Ottoman Empire was indeed crumbling, one of the major exter- nal obstacles to creating an Albanian state was the fact that Serbia (includ- ing Montenegro) had already been established. An important component of the “Saga of the Mountains” is the exaltation and glorification of the armed...

... in the increasingly auton- omous northwestern region of Macedonia and increased benefits to veterans of the 2000 – 1 Albanian guerrilla insurgency.23 There also has been agitation in largely Albanian regions elsewhere in Serbia as well as in Montenegro. Greater Albania advocates in both Kosovo and Albania...

... of the country’s natural gas sector. The Hydrocarbons Sector in Albania: Short- Term Challenges and Long- Term Opportunities Tomáš Vlcˇek and Martin Jirušek Albania is a Western Balkan country with 2.9 million inhabitants. Its neigh- bors are Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro. In the west...

... countries: Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia. Yet those Vlachs of the Balkans not fully assimilated by their host nations have one thing in com- mon—they speak a language apparently deriving from the Latin...

.... This grouping in the western Balkans—Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Albania—is viewed by many as the “black hole” in the Bal- kans, an area of bitter ethnic wars, internal political collapse, economic dis- integration, and general trouble for themselves and the neighborhood. But it is also...

... on two regions nearest and dearest to Serbia: Kosovo and Montenegro. The effect in Kosovo, jointly administered and controlled by North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops under its Kosovo Force (KFOR) and the United Nations Interim Administration...

... nine of column 2, namely, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, FYROM,24 Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia. Turkey, in many instances, is also grouped as a Balkan state (at least its European part), and this is why it is listed in column 2. Slovenia is not listed...

..., and a program of tariff reduc- tions.13 All the nations bordering Yugoslavia were slated to receive assis- tance; even within Yugoslavia, Montenegro was deemed eligible for direct assistance, although U.S. officials did not elaborate on how this could be achieved...

..., in his writing, and in his editorship of this quarterly, he manifested a deep under- standing of Serbs, of Albanians, and of the other peoples of southeastern Europe. In a sense he even married into the Balkans when he wed Katarina Ivancevic of Montenegro. His life was marked by two wars. Nazi...