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AriRusila's BalkanBlog

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Arirusila´s BalkanBlog - a personal perspective on events in western Balkans. Topics of interest: Serbia, Kosovo province, EU enlargement, ICO/EUSR, Eulex, UN peacekeeping operations, western Balkans, crisis management

Added on: Aug 15th, 2008
Country: Finland
Language: English

Author: Ari Rusila
Listed in: International Affairs Politics
Tags: serbia croatia kosovo crisis management balkans bosnia-herzegovina

Recent Posts

Will Coin work in Afghanistan?

Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 12:19 in afghanistan, coin, crisis management, us foreign policy, military-industrial complex, cfsp, counter-insurgency strategy, esdp, ari rusila, balkanblog, eu external relations

“After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home.” (Barack Obama) “They are coming already in coffins.” (Ari Rusila) US President Obama finally announced his new counter-insurgency (aka “Coin”) strategy in Afghan...
Ari Rusila’s Conflicts -news portal

Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 12:43 in afghanistan, middle-east, crisis management, balkans, balkanblog, ari rusila's conflicts

As I can comment only about a tiny fraction of news about the issues of my interest I have launched a news portal for better coverage. My new “Ari Rusila’s Conflicts” site – created with help and platform of NewsCred Ltd. – is loaded r...
EU foreign policy in relation to EC selections

Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 12:21 in eu, balkans, third way, eu foreign policy, eu enlargement, black sea region, ari rusila, balkanblog, eu eastern partnership

First, a few quotes that relate to selection of EU’s top officials: Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe. (Mr Van Rompuy) If the point of the Lisbon Treaty was to create a more prominent face for Euro...
Kosovo – an captured independence

Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 19:32 in taiwan, serbia, eu, kosovo, montenegro, balkans, bric, bosnia-herzegovina, eu enlargement, visa restrictions, ari rusila, balkanblog

Free movement is one fundamental human rights not only in one’s own country but also abroad. While speaking about Balkans I earlier have highlighted (e.g. “Forgotten Refugees – West Balkans“) the situation of Serb refugees or IDPs (...
The Nabucco-South Stream race intensifies

Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 05:09 in china, Ukraine, Turkey, austria, bulgaria, eu, russia, energy policy, nabucco, balkans, south stream, gas pipelines

The race between the two EU’s eastern gas pipelines is going on while next winter can again show some supply problems via Ukraine. South Stream got latest boost on 11th November 2009 as Russia’s Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Slov...
Forgotten Refugees – West Balkans

Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 19:16 in serbia, croatia, refugees, kosovo, UNHCR, montenegro, albania, crisis management, balkans, bosnia-herzegovina, idps, ari rusila

The refugee question is of paramount importance in Balkans – still. Beginning 1991, political upheavals – such as the breakup of Yugoslavia – displaced millions of people. Officially one part of these people are refugees meaning that they ...