[ALBSA-Info] The Connection Talk Show on the Balkans

[Agron Alibali]

 THE CONNECTION SHOW AT WBUR

REVISITING THE BALKANS

January 3, 2002

Moderator: Dick Gordon

 

Introduction:

It is a lawless, windswept, cold and mountainous land. A place where soldiers, mercenaries and guerrilla fighters, still hide in distant valleys and remote caves. And this is not Afghanistan. This is the Balkans: Macedonia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro. A part of the world that has fallen below the West's radar. A place where crippled economies and a lack of law and order rear converts to a criminal lifestyle, where discontent combines with scant opportunity to turn young men with nothing better to do into fanatics. 

What position should America have towards the Balkans in the war against terrorism? Post in our International Forum 


And as America's war on terrorism hones in on targets beyond Afghanistan, some old ground may have to be the new priority. The Balkans, battlefields of the past, terrorist safe haven of the present, and criminal breeding ground of the future. 
	
			
										
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Guests:   Misha Glenny, author of “The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 – 1999”; Ambassador James Pardew, US Envoy to the Balkans; and Susan Woodward, Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York. 

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