Balkans | Watching America

South Korea: America Remains Indispensable

Robin Koerner - June 9, 2021. Published in Korea Times

The worst outcome for the international order would be a continuing U.S. inclination toward self-isolation.

Serbia: New ‘Cold War’ Will Fuel Tensions in Southeast, Central Europe

Robin Koerner - February 22, 2021. Published in Balkan Insights

The fresh crisis in Moscow’s relations with the West is having a ripple effect in many countries and regions – including in the Balkans and Central Europe – where Russian and Western interests collide.

Russia: Americans Become Very Bold in the Balkans

Robin Koerner - February 22, 2021. Published in Vzglyad

[T]he Balkans are the area where Americans lose all sense of right and wrong and commit atrocities that are avoided even in Africa.

Turkey: Why the Dayton Peace Accords Still Hold

Robin Koerner - December 11, 2020. Published in Daily Sabah

What the agreement ushered in was a complex political structure that translated the military balance of power into an institutionalized political stalemate.

Poland: US Plays Its Game in the Balkans. What’s the European Union’s Reaction?

Danuta Kowalska - September 25, 2020. Published in Polityka

The agreement signed in Washington aimed to normalize neighborly relations and result in peace and quiet in the Balkans. This peace is still under threat.

Croatia: Trump’s Serbia-Kosovo Deal ‘Middle-Easternizes’ the Balkans

Robin Koerner - September 12, 2020. Published in Balkan Insights

By re-introducing the “Muslim label” into the political discourse and by bringing Israel, and indeed Hezbollah into the equation, President Trump is Middle-Easternising the Balkans.

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