The spectre of fresh ethnic conflict in Macedonia has revived debate in the West about redrawing the map of the Balkans, but diplomats directly involved warn that would open a can of worms. The ...

Wikimedia. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) A closer look at many of the early ethnographic maps of the Balkans reveals an even deeper level of complexity, one with implications for Central Asia and the Middle East ...

It is demographic engineering on a huge scale, generating new hatreds that seem likely to plague this part of the Balkans for generations.

Nikola Tesla was a Balkan visionary whose influence continues to shape the very world in which we live in myriad ways. Every ...

The people of Kosovo want to move beyond the violence and uncertainty of the last decade. Under Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, the ethnic Albanians who comprise 95 percent of the population ...

One of the most persuasive arguments why the United States cannot cut and run in Iraq is that a premature U.S. withdrawal would probably provoke civil war and ethnic cleansing on a scale that ...

In a wide-ranging interview with Euronews, EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak also said that it is up to the states of the Western Balkans to prove that they will be functioning and effective members of the ...

Peace agreements brought the last Balkan conflict to an end more than two decades ago, but they didn't resolve ethnic tensions, which are rising to the surface again.

Ethnic cleansing in the Balkans faces Clinton with his campaign promises to end it.

The ethnic composition of the country is approximately 85.2% Bulgarian, 8.8% Turkish, 4.9% Roma and 1.5% other, a category composed primarily of other European ethnicities.

After all, territorial conquest and ethnic engineering helped form the Balkans' modern states in the wars of the late 19th and early 20th century, and western powers then seemed happy to egg their ...