In keeping with the tradition of making spoken full texts available, this is the chat I will be giving this afternoon at this nice conference with our friends in Regensburg. If you have not been able to attend you can use it for vicarious enjoyment, and if you are here you can read along with … Continue reading
Nobody knows what to expect in international policy from the incoming Trump administration (there! I said it!), least of all the people involved in it or the profoundly ignorant Mr Trump himself. There have been early indications that the incoming US president wants to align foreign policy with Russia and to provoke an entirely … Continue reading
Everyone will tell you, Politika is the oldest newspaper in the Balkans. They say it is influential too, but this is probably an exaggeration. Of the remaining people who actually read newspapers, more seem to prefer the lurid tabloids chock full of conspiracy theories (Politika does okay on that count) and assorted body parts of … Continue reading
It has become mildly popular, in the wake of the disastrous referendum in which a small majority of a deliberately misinformed public voted to advise the UK government to leave the European Union, to draw parallels between the future of the UK, which would certainly not survive such a dramatic move, and the recent past … Continue reading
A little text for our friends in Novi Sad tomorrow. Mind you, I still have to make the slides. For the conference: “Postsocialism: Hybridity, continuity and change” Since 1989, discussion of the political future of Europe has been marked by a strong discourse of inevitability. This is an especially interesting time to revisit these discourses … Continue reading
A piece where I made a few comments in Foreign Policy has got a little attention since being picked up by a few regional media outlets (here it is in N1, Danas, Slobodna Evropa, there may be a few more spots). As always, when I make statements for media they do not run the whole thing … Continue reading
You can read the Karadžić verdict too! It’s right here. It’s 2615 pages, so make yourself comfortable and set aside some time. If you haven’t got the time, here are a few questions and answers. There was no genocide before 1995, really? The most discussed fact about the Karadžić case is that he was … Continue reading
