... state that, during its brief existence between April 1941 and May 1945, subjected its minority Serbian population to genocide. In addition to many hundreds of thousands being killed or forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism (the religion of the Croats), many Serbs fled the territory of the NDH...

...Svetlana Rakić Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2006 Svetlana Rakić is associate professor of art at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana. She is the author of several books on Serbian Orthodox icons and the interrelatedness of modern art and religious thought. She worked as a consultant...

...David Binder Svetlana Rakic: Serbian Icons from Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century . New York: A. Pankovich Publishers, 2000. 294 pages. ISBN 0-9672101-2-7. $125.00. David Binder is a retired Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for the New York Times . Mediterranean...

...Karthika Sasikumar In 2009, citizens of Serbia were finally allowed to make short trips to Schengen zone countries without visas. This represented a victory for the regime in Belgrade. A whole generation of Serbians had been held back from European travel by the visa requirement that was introduced...

... at The Hague. It’s a sure bet that by 2014 the appeal will be upheld for guilt of committing various war crimes. That assumes the tribunal still has a defendant, since two Serbian presidents and one Serbian mayor, among others, have died in ICTY custody. Who knows what the surreal judicial alchemy shall...

... ationalist as a negative quantity was made even more explicit by attaching intensifying prefixes such as “ultra” or “extreme.” Searches of newspaper and other archives show that nationalist as a denunciatory epithet has continued in the media to the present day, especially as applied to Serbian politicians...

... and popular accounts, as well as official US and European positions, have placed emphasis on Milosevic's machinations to build Great Serbia, yet in the Serbian narrative itself the rebirth of Islamic power in Bosnia and Kosovo proved fundamental. This essay examines both narratives and concludes with some...

... stability nor justice to the Balkans. Instead, the United States and NATO have foolishly empowered the main disruptive faction. The principal source of turmoil was never Serbian expansionism. It was—and remains—the drive by Albanian nationalists to create a Greater Albania, which would encompass sizable...

... in the region. It is recommended to specialists and to Lebanon experts, although the style of the book is such that people with no prior knowledge of the subject can also find enjoyment from it. Svetlana Rakic: Serbian Icons from Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sixteenth...

... and his rivals in the region. It is recommended to specialists and to Lebanon experts, although the style of the book is such that people with no prior knowledge of the subject can also find enjoyment from it. Svetlana Rakic: Serbian Icons...

... Serbian state and that many if not all Serbs regard Kosovo as part of their “ancestral homeland”5 only reinforces state resilience to hold 2. Edward S. Herman, “Good versus Evil: How the Media Got it Wrong in Yugoslavia,” Book review of Peter Brock, Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting — Journalism...

... in that both were directed toward extricating Montenegro from the grip of Slobodan Milosevic’s increas- ingly dictatorial and violent regime. The coalition of Muslim parties came in third with thirteen seats, and the People’s Party (NS), the most pro-Serbian party in Montenegro, was last with twelve...

... as a potential candidate. Since 1999 — when Serbia was compelled by massive US–led bombing An earlier version of this essay was presented on 28 January 2009 under the auspices of the Njegos Serbian Studies Endowment at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. David Binder is a retired...

... of malign symbiotic relationships: in the Yugoslav context, in the interna- tional context, and in the Serbian context. Opposite to conventional symbi- otic relationships, defined as mutually beneficial ties between dissimilar organisms, the Milosevic variant became...

... fashion with respect to the conduct of Serbian military forces in both Croatia and Bosnia. It became fashionable to portray the fighting in those two countries not as civil wars but as premeditated aggression by the 2. John R. MacArthur, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War (New...

... that there was no evidence to indicate that Milosevic had planned to ethnically cleanse Kosovo before the air strikes began.1 The incident that turned the tide toward military intervention was the so- called Racak Massacre of January 1999, in which Serbian security forces...

... of the Miloˇsevi´c government’s capitulation to North Atlantic Treaty Organization demands for an end to ethnic cleansing and the withdrawal of Serbian forces, Clinton’s speech may have been the result of presidential exuberance or rhetorical excess rather than careful...

... States and Russia. Serbia’s Foreign Policy Capacity Melissa McConnell American calls for the Bosnian Serb leadership to turn a new page with a new administration in Washington (and these calls apply to the Serbian lead- ers in Belgrade as well) are patently...

... Croat. Those who blame Slobodan Milosevic ignore the fact that he was not part of the Yugoslav government at the time. Probably the most tragic of the Yugoslav wars was the conflict in Bosnia. The first part of the tragedy lies in the fact that before any violence had occurred, the Serbian...

... served by supporting the Partisans. In 1945, Churchill admitted that his Yugoslav decision was one of the biggest mistakes in the war, while the Serbs felt betrayed. Nevertheless, U.S. support for Yugoslavia was never in doubt, and U.S.- Serbian...