The collapse of Yugoslavia following the death of its long-time leader set the stage for rising nationalism and deep ...

At the back of the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, is a café called Tito. Inside, a bronze bust of the man himself, Josip Broz Tito, presides over a red room bedecked with ...

NEW YORK — Some of us still get a little hazy about the seven nations in the lower right corner of Europe, east of Italy and north of Greece. So here’s a quick refresher: Slovenia is the birthplace of ...

Even an atomic world would be easy and safe if all political choices were between freedom and slavery, progress and reaction, good and evil. The world is not safe or easy, because many of the choices ...

The collapse of Yugoslavia was spectacular and sudden, but in the context of Balkan history it can hardly be said to have been surprising. From the outset, in the wake of the first world war, the ...

On April 6, 1941, Yugoslavia was invaded by Germany during World War II, falling in 11 days and losing an estimated 1 million people during the next four years. The attack came as the result of a ...

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(See Cover) He clasps the crag with crooked hands . . . he watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls. These words, written of an eagle, today are a far better fit for one of the ...

With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in ...

Some great teams are designed, planned from the very first in painstaking detail; some are flung together, making a mockery of all notions of preparations. It was 20 years ago this summer that, almost ...