Welcome to the Balkan political theater, where Macedonia politics is like a Shakespearean drama. It has more twists than a mountain road. The 2008 parliamentary vote was not just an election. It was a ...

How does a breakaway region turn into a partially recognized state? This question would make Bismarck curious. We’ll look at Kosovo’s journey through Balkan affairs. Athletic exchanges helped start ...

For the past 30 years, and since the formal dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992, the United States has been party to a number of changes throughout the region. The ...

In this context, one conclusion stands out: No sustainable regional order in the Balkans can be built without Türkiye.

When the leaders of the EU and the countries of the Western Balkans meet in Brussels on Wednesday for the EU-Western Balkans summit, progress on EU enlargement will be high on the agenda. After the ...

In May 1999, as NATO was bombing Yugoslavia to force the Serbian regime to end its campaign of violence in Kosovo, prominent ethnic Albanian dissident academic Ukshin Hoti was released from jail – and ...

In a new age of great-power politics, the Western Balkans might seem like an afterthought. But given the region's centrality to three larger geopolitical trends, it could well play an outsize role in ...

Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Dayton peace agreement that ended the 1992-95 war, citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina are the most dissatisfied in the Western Balkans with the way they are being ...

Examining recent and current events, you would be forgiven for thinking that the EU was pursuing expansion in the Western Balkans. On the surface, things seem to be moving in the right direction, from ...