Serb-majority North Mitrovica is the only Kosovo city with a sizable mixed population including Albanians, Bosniaks, Turks, Roma, Gorani and others. Living there are many who fled other conflict areas ...

By Dražen Pehar For the subjects to accept the potestas absoluta of the sovereign requires that they regard him with terror, as indeed is the case of Medusa and Dionysos. Hobbes’s monster state and ...

The “Two State Solution” is a slogan not a solution. By David B. Kanin Washington has defaulted to the tried and failed idea ...

I have frequently referred, here and elsewhere, to a possible political solution for north Kosovo that I have called “Ahtisaari Plus.” By this I meant to refer to a form of special autonomy for the ...

That is what Milosevic and Tudjman had in mind in the 1990s, of course, but a defiantly coalescing Bosnjak community aborted that neo-Sporazum. Nevertheless, international rhetoric and intervention ...

The tendency for African leaders to extend or prolong their terms in office seems to be slowly regaining momentum. Between April and November 2015, the Great Lakes region is once again at the brink of ...

Reading carefully all the contributions and comments on constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I would like to offer a different perspective. I am not a diplomat, lawyer or academic. I am no ...

Living with the Islamic State Even if the Islamic State’s current modus operandi revolts us, the political logic to its existence remains firm. The West and the regional powers alike would now do best ...

A year ago, in this space, I suggested the usefulness of revisiting the Ahtisaari Plan as part of an effort to resuscitate the Contact Group effort to reach a compromise solution on Kosovo. It has ...

At the end of last year, the Sri Lanka Campaign published a critique of an intervention in the House of Lords by Lord Naseby. In that intervention, Lord Naseby sought to discredit prevailing UN ...

The internal borders of Bosnia are today less physical markers, but continue to firmly separate political power and cement ethnic divisions. A second category of borders in Bosnia are the external ...