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Operation "Self-Interest?"

by Bobi | Feature | June - August 2002

PN: For some years now Macedonia has been on the receiving end of “humanitarian” military interventions [see box below for a list of international missions to Mac ...

James Pettifer, 'Kosova Express: A Journey in Wartime'

by Eamonn Gearon | Review | June 2005

Hurst, 2005; ISBN 1 85065 749 1; Pb 262pp; £16.00

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Kosova: the hydra

by Alice Mead | Feature | December 2004 - February 2005

Alice Mead argues that the UN mission in Kosova was doomed from the start and should be called what it is — a "multinational failure".

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Maggie Helwig, 'Between Mountains'

by Howard Clark | Review | December 2004 - February 2005

Chatto & Windus 2004; ISBN 0 70117691 1; Hb 324pp; £12.99

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Ask questions, speak up, disobey!

by Vesna Jankovic | Feature | December 2003 - February 2004

When it all started, back in 1991, I could hardly imagine where it would end. ...

REX: A cultural laboratory

by PN staff | Feature | September - November 2002

In Serbia the REX/B92 cultural centre describes itself as “a laboratory for research of new fields of culture”. ...

Bring on the bulldozers!

by Ippy D | Comment | March - May 2001

Personal responsibility is the key to the OTPOR movement in Serbia a movement which has been credited with contributing to the fall of Milosevic. ...

Croatia - a small country for a great plunder

by Drazen Simlesa | Feature | March - May 2001

Several years ago the Croatian Department of Tourism led a big marketing campaign to try to attract the long dreamed about tourists who were still afraid of the instability in the region. ...

Nonviolent revolution in Serbia?

by PN staff | News | December 2000 - February 2001

Almost nonviolent - marred only by the deaths of two people - was it, or is it, a revolution? ...

Building for peace in the aftermath of war

by Robert Sautter | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

I can speak both Serbian and Albanian, but which one I use sets me on one side against the other. There is no place for me here, I do not belong. ...