The GDP of the Eastern European countries in 2015 was 60% higher than 25 years ago, while Serbia is 25% below that level. These countries as a whole are 85% more developed than Serbia.

Not a day goes by that we don’t get insulted by the government. It insults us collectively, as a group, as individuals. But at the end of the day, the government feels the most insulted.

Introduction to Vojin Dimitrijevic’s book “The reign of terror”: He wrote this book more than 30 years ago, believing that the end of the XX century was to bring a liberation from fear.

Ten days after the murder in Zitiste we still came to the point where violence is violence, jealousy is jealousy, and it’s hard to be left by a partner. You can read all about this in the article on the Politika website.

Torture methods used in Serbian institutions resemble interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the American prison Guantanamo, whose closing the prime minister is supposedly enabling.

Students in Serbia will know every detail about the Srebrenica genocide – from textbooks and through school excursions to the Memorial Centre, where we stand today.

About a new book by Branislav Jakovljevic: it was written by a performance studies scholar, but it is also a study of the economic and political failure of Yugoslavia.

EJIL: Talk! – Cameron has just announced that he will be stepping down by October, but the irony is that we may yet remember him sentimentally under, say, a prime minister Boris Johnson.

What is actually happening in Serbia? Almost simultaneously with the protests, we landed in the middle of a crisis with the West whose consequences still can’t be foreseen.

Metropolitics
Ethnic, nationalistic and social tensions are at an all-time high in Turkey…

In the past, I was ready to point to the fine difference between “good” and “bad” nationalists, to accept patriots as flag-waving, basically harmless people. But not anymore…

This is the first conversation in the set of meetings called the Other Serbia, organized by the Belgrade Circle in the begining of the 90s: For every one of us this means something. Something more than simply a promise…

If these first-degree verdicts become final, it would mean that Radovan Karadzic will have to bear the consequences of his crimes, while Vojislav Seselj will only have to answer to the public.

President Obama has obviously grasped that the Nobel Prize for Peace he received “on loan” was actually worth earning. His opponents in Washington see his trip to Havana as an act of treason.

I am writing to you on behalf of the global network of over 2,500 NGOs in 150 countries – to express dismay at the honor extended to an ICC fugitive, Sudanese President.

EJIL: Talk!
With its many flaws, the judgment will be reversed on appeal. But its principal damage – that of reinforcing diverging ethnic realities in the Balkans – will already have been done.

This article was originally published in 2008, when Karadzic was caught in Belgrade. We republished it 8 years latter, when the Hague Tribunal reached its verdict in the Karadzic case.

EJIL: Talk! – Yesterday the ICTY Trial Chamber convicted Radovan Karadzic for numerous crimes committed during the conflict and sentenced him to 40 years imprisonment.

Conversation with Łukasz Pawłowski for Kultura liberalna magazine: In all the Balkan countries you can hardly find decent media. Along with deprofessionalization, there is the process of ‘dumbification’…

Today we are giving a public lecture on Srebrenica, and examining the matrix of our learning about ourselves. The Turks are our mental time limit. The year 1389 is the beginning of our new era.