The Balkans

Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha died on 11 April 1985.

With the trial of the former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic due to begin, Nick Hawton reflects on his time reporting in a region where history is still used to justify war.

John Etty questions whether Serb nationalism was an irresistible force that helped unleash the First World War.

Steve Morewood investigates Anthony Eden’s frenetic diplomatic efforts to forge a Balkan front to save Greece from Nazi Germany and the controversies that resulted from his failed mission.

Richard Cavendish charts the events leading up to King Zog I's coronation on September 1st, 1928.

Markus Bauer hopes that Romania’s membership of the European Union will enable it to face down the ghosts of its troubled twentieth-century past.

On May 21st, Montenegrins are being asked, in a long-delayed referendum, if they want to end their union with Serbia. James Evans explains the background to their momentous decision.

Robert Johnson puts the decline of a once-great Empire into an international context.

Roman Golicz looks at English attitudes to Russia during the Eastern Crisis of 1870-78.