During the 1992-1995 civil war, the Chapel was neglected and vandalized. Bosnian Muslims used it as a public lavatory […]
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Kosovo: A Short History – A Contribution Which Noel Malcolm Will Never Tell You
Both the KosMet’s Serb and the Albanian leaderships were confused with the complicated situation, which involved not only Habsburgs but Venetians, Crimean Tatars, Russian court, Orthodox, and Catholic churches, Muslims of all ethnic origin, etc. […]
Ten Lies Told about World War I
From the causes of the war, to its prosecution and its results, here are the counter-arguments to ten common pro-war ploys […]
Why London Presented Hitler with Vienna and Prague?
All of Adolf Hitler’s actions, from the time he rose to power in 1933 until 1939, could be described as one triumph after another. He met each challenge he faced: he took over as head of the country, returned Germany’s lost territories without a struggle, and was given permission from England and France to rearm […]
RT’s Inappropriate WWI Revisionism
Princip triggering the war implies he pressed some kind of a button that caused the war to happen […]
Conrad Von Hetzendorf: The General Who Demanded War on Serbia 25 Times in a Year
Since January 1913 until June 1914 (i.e. before the Sarajevo assassination ) he formally demanded 25 times permission to attack Serbia and thus confirm the monarchy as a superpower, in order to prevent the disintegration of Monarchy […]
A Biography of Kurt Waldheim (Austria)
A contribution to the biography of a fourth U.N. Secretary General and ex-Nazi Oberleutnant during the WWII (Included authentic photos from the WWII) […]
The European Union and Common Pan-European Identity
The article deals with relations between on the one hand the supporters of pan-European identity, which has to take the place of the particular national ones, and on the other hand the proponents of maintaining specific national identities as the top priority within the European Union (the EU) […]
Westphalian Foundations of Modern International Relations, Global Politics and Global Security
The practical implementation of the principles of the 1648 Peace Treaty of Westphalia became, however, contradictory in its nature as they were, in essence, opposing each other to the level not to be finally compatible […]
The Peace Treaty of Westphalia (1648) and Its Consequences for International Relations
International relations (IR) from the mid-17th century to the mid-20th century were founded on the decisions by the Peace Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 that ended the Thirty Years War. However, from the beginning of the 21st century, the IR are once again more and more framed by the international standards established in 1648 […]
The Balkans’ Run-Up to the Catalan Crisis
No serious expert would say that self-proclaimed Kosovo is financially viable without the support of the West. According to the estimates of independent organizations, the international community gave Kosovo $2.3 billion in aid between 1999 and 2002. Between 2005 and 2008, the country received $1.9 billion, nearly half of its GDP, to carry out reforms […]
Catalan Independence: 5 Things to Think About
Catalan independence can be good or bad – it depends on the Catalan people to make it good, or else it likely will be bad […]
Dysfunction in the Balkans – Can the Post-Yugoslav Settlement Survive?
When Yugoslavia collapsed at the start of 1990s, there was nothing predetermined about what followed. One possibility was the emergence of nation-states, comparable to those elsewhere in Europe; another was multiethnic states based on internal administrative boundaries […]