Balkan States

The Balkan Endgame

Another Balkan High Noon

Exorcising the Last Balkan Ghosts

A European Cure for Balkan Depression

Kosovo became the powder keg of Balkan.

DENVER Much has been said about the similarities between the chaos in Syria and the Balkan wars of the 1990 s. But, while the prolonged killing may indeed be reminiscent, the political and diplomatic effort that finally ended the war in Bosnia is hardly in evidence today.

For example, the total cost of the Balkan wars of the 1990 s is estimated at 150 billion. Today, NATO continues to maintain a safe and secure environment for all of Kosovo s people, and is helping the entire region progress along the path of Euro Atlantic integration.

I recently took part in a conference in Belgrade entitled Dealing with the Past in ex Yugoslavia. Although the rest of postcommunist Europe confronted such questions a decade ago, the Balkan wars of the 1990 s left both perpetrators and victims stuck in a time warp of justice delayed.

Due to our recent efforts, the wounds of the Bosnian war are being healed, facilitating peace and stability among Balkan peoples. Turkey s efforts are also helping to prevent wars in the Middle East, and our intense efforts have helped keep a diplomatic track open on the Iranian nuclear issue.

One of the most dreadful decades of Balkan history ended five years ago.

More wars especially CIA backed, Western led wars will solve nothing.

Bos Wars

Gravity Wars

Drone Wars

Water Wars.

Since the end of the Cold War, Europe has no longer been the first line of defense of the United States. And, since the end of the Balkan wars, the continent s security problems have disappeared (except at the margins, as in Georgia, or potential threats stemming from its near abroad, particularly the Arab world).

The next big step was the emergence of the concept of humanitarian intervention after the genocide in Rwanda and the Balkan wars in the 1990 s. As a result, international law came to recognize the right of protection against governmental arbitrariness and states crimes against their own people, even though enforcement remains quite uncertain.

China s Stealth Wars

Welcoming the progress made in the normalization of relations among all States of the Balkan region,

(s) Balkan Legal Forum 2004, Business and law in South East Europe (Sofia, Bulgaria 17 September 2004)

Wars persist. Power persists.

The Escalating Arab Wars

Big Countries, Small Wars

Blob Wars Blob And Conquer

Blob Wars Metal Blob Solid

We have covered many wars.

The Return of Currency Wars

Ending East Asia s History Wars

The Arab Wars of Religion

The will to transcend the murderous trauma in the Balkans was also present. Watching students from Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia confront their memories of the Balkan wars, European students had first hand experience of what true reconciliation meant and what the rules of the game were in the greatest success the EU had known transcending the Cold War and nationalist animosities.

One major task that NATO performed in the first decade after the Cold War was to attract the newly freed countries of Central Europe toward the West, with the prospect of membership conditioned on meeting democratic standards. Another important task was to help bring stability to the troubled Balkan region after the breakup of Yugoslavia and the resultant wars in Bosnia and Kosovo.

Started off when the causes in the wars du jour in the '70s were wars of independence and decolonization.

David Pogue on the music wars

See what the wars in Rwanda.

The Dollar Joins the Currency Wars

The Domestic Wars of Hosni Mubarak

It is easy to photograph wars.

When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.

When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.

One reason the current situation facing Europe is so difficult is that it was so unexpected. Here we are, 70 years after the end of World War II, a quarter century after the end of the Cold War, and some two decades after the Balkan wars, and suddenly Europe s political, economic, and strategic future seems much more uncertain than anyone predicted as recently as a year ago.

Yet this prosperous and peaceful Europe is not idyllic sometimes Europe is not at all an easy place for its citizens to live, as the tumultuous Balkan Wars and painful postcommunist transitions of the past decade demonstrated. But even in hard times, every European knows deep down that European integration has delivered peace with clear prospects for broadening Europe's zone of peace and stability.

And people do terrible things in wars.

The Federal Reserve and the Currency Wars

Classic inter State wars have virtually ended.