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Category: Balkans

Remember Sarajevo: A Photographic Reminder of Evil

The Digital Journalist
January 2003

Do we need to remember Sarajevo? The war in Bosnia ended in 1995, and much has happened since then, not only in Bosnia, but in the rest of the world. We have lived through the events of 9/11, we have engaged in war in Afghanistan, and we ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on January 2, 2003January 31, 2021Categories Article, Balkans

Paying for the Powell Doctrine: The Delusions behind 200,000 Deaths in Bosnia

Dissent
January 2002

In the early days of the Bosnian War, Colin Powell, who at the time chaired the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came to the conclusion that stopping the fighting would require the use of 250,000 troops. Then-President George Bush took his advice to heart and, fearing ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on January 2, 2002January 31, 2021Categories Article, Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Macedonia Diary: Dispatches After 9/11

Slate
September 13, 2001

Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001

At the main gate to the U.S. military base outside Skopje, Army soldiers in full battle gear offer visitors a crisp salute and an even crisper shout of their squad’s motto—”Strike To Kill.”

The motto predates ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on September 14, 2001January 31, 2021Categories Article, Balkans, Slate

Milosevic and the Beginning of Honesty

The New York Times
June 30, 2001

When Bob Stewart, who commanded the first regiment of British peacekeepers in Bosnia, was asked by the BBC for his reaction to the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic, he responded with one joyous word: “Hallelujah.”

Across Europe ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on July 1, 2001January 31, 2021Categories Article, Balkans, New York Times

Have It Your Way: Why the Bush Administration Should Be Thrilled About Macedonia

The New Republic
June 29, 2001

In 1993, connoisseurs of government dithering heard Warren Christopher utter a delightful phrase that reflected his befuddlement with the war in Bosnia. The conflict, the secretary of state confessed, was a “problem from hell.” What ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on June 30, 2001January 31, 2021Categories Article, Balkans, New Republic

Our Half-Baked Balkan Policy

The Washington Post
March 26, 2001

All too often the American government has, in its handling of Balkan affairs, pursued a policy of “Do as I say and not as I do.”

Last week Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was on the receiving end of this treatment during ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on March 27, 2001January 31, 2021Categories Article, Balkans, Washington Post

Radio Wars: Milosevic’s Failure to Silence the Radio Station B-92 and the War He Lost

Brill’s Content
March 2001

In Belgrade, you don’t need to be paranoid, but it helps. It’s late October, and I’m sipping an espresso at the Window Café, along Knez Mihailova, the city’s main shopping street, with Sasha Mirkovic, the general manager ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on March 2, 2001January 31, 2021Categories Article, Balkans

Curse of Normalcy: Writers in Post-Milosevic Yugoslavia Discover Angst No Longer Sells

The Atlantic
February 2001

The main exhibition hall in Belgrade is a visual curiosity. A concrete-and-glass dome designed during the Tito era by an architect of great imagination, the hall looks like a flying saucer that somehow landed in the Balkans. It was an appropriate ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on February 2, 2001January 31, 2021Categories Article, Balkans

Riot in October: Inside a Roiling Soccer Stadium in Belgrade

Details
January 2001

2:30 P.M.

The scent of revenge is in the air, and it smells a lot like beer.

Fans of the Red Star soccer team are pouring into a Belgrade stadium, where their squad will shortly face its archrival, Partizan. The last time these Serbian teams met, a fan was ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on January 2, 2001January 31, 2021Categories Article, Balkans

Serbia Is Not Freed of Its Ugly Illusions

The New York Times
October 24, 2000

BELGRADE, Serbia–Several days ago a Serbian law student told me, in excellent English, that he wanted to become a judge so that he could help clean up the corrupt legal system that is one of the poisonous legacies of Slobodan Milosevic. ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on October 25, 2000January 31, 2021Categories Article, Balkans, New York Times

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