The Western Balkan region continues to receive a disproportionately higher amount of news coverage in international media outlets, in comparison to the bigger and...
General state weakness, lack of democratic tradition, and perseverance of ethnic nationalism in the Western Balkans have a disproportionate impact on non-majority or minority...
This paper examines the government and civil society institutions and practices that enable diffusion of ethnic-based tension in Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Serbia in...
Over the last 30 years, the Western Balkan countries have been shifting from socialist and authoritarian regimes to democratic ones striving for independent institutions,...
This paper argues that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February has fundamentally changed the context in which the European Union’s enlargement policy must...
There is a wide-ranging consensus in Kosovo that dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia is unnecessary. Kosovo has declared its independence in 2008, following a...
Considering that political parties in the Western Balkans oppose their countries’ extractive system only until they become their part, it is down to the...
Various types of civic actors disrupt the illiberal democracies in the Western Balkans: investigative reporters, watchdogs, fact-checkers and do-tanks, and, as a relatively recent...