Article: The powder keg.(Eastern Europe - The Balkans)

Article: Balkans have long history of factions, warfare, tumult: ...
The Washington Times;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Long before World War I, the Balkans played a central ... that resulted in World War I stemmed from ... railroads through the Balkans, but was settled ... Two wars in the Balkans were fought in ... rapidly spread into World War I. The peace ...

Article: The Politics of Diplomacy: Britain and France in the ...
Canadian Journal of History;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Politics of Diplomacy: Britain and France in the Balkans in the First World War, by David Dutton. New York, I.B. Tauris (distributed ... focus on Anglo-French relations with respect to the Balkans. In one sense, this is well-trodden ground ...

Article: The Balkans: Wisdom From World War II
The Washington Post;  March 9, 1993 ;     469 words ... ... that established Allied policy toward the Balkans. A key passage stating why military involvement in the Balkans was not considered viable is eerie in ... of limited objectives operations in the Balkans, however attractive in themselves, invariably ...

Article: Monitor; On the road to stability All the News of the ...
The Independent - London;  June 12, 1999 ;     700+ words ...WAR IN THE BALKANS World reaction to the end of hostilities in the Balkans as a peace agreement is signed and the Serbs pull ... very few winners to this latest armed struggle in the Balkans. The obvious losers are the hundreds of thousands ...

Article: The killing ground; the Balkans in World War ...
U.S. News & World Report;  April 28, 1986 ;     700+ words ... ... conflict that allowed for no bystanders, no matter how old, how young. The Yugoslavs launched the first resistance movement of World War II, following the German-Italian invasion in the spring of 1941. Its leader was Col. Draza Mihajlovic, a Serb whose followers ...

Article: Norfolk In the First World War.(GREAT BRITAIN, ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2005 ;     448 words ...DA670 1-86077-290-0 Norfolk in the first World War. Meeres, Frank. Phillimore, [c]2004 213 p. $36.00 Meeres is a senior archivist in the Norfolk Records Office, where ...

Article: Al-Qaeda's links in the Balkans; Macedonian officials ...
Insight on the News;  July 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... right choices." But when it comes to Kosovo and Macedonia the seamless approach appears to be at risk of unraveling. The Balkans is one area where the United States apparently would prefer to step lightly for fear of upsetting the tenuous peace. U.S ...