When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans, John V. A. FineE. Vasileva
Beijing has funded numerous Western Balkans and Eastern Europe projects, including rail lines connecting Belgrade with Budapest. Hungary was among the largest global recipients of BRI investments, but not all the projects succeeded. Montenegro took a $1 billion loan from China in 2014 to build ...
Not only were times difficult in the US, but the rest of the world was in turmoil as well. WWI started in 1914, although tensions had been building in the Balkans since as early as the 1870s. In late 1917 came the October Revolution with the Communist overthrow of the Russian Czars. ...
Not only is there the previous investment (although it’s not an investment really) but if a parent stops the funnelling of resources into the activity, then there is the fear that the child might think the parent doesn’t believe in them anymore. And if the money stops, then maybe that...
Judge Michel rightly said that the patent system has become the domain of propagandists, “narrative” builders and spin artists, and not experts. For example, we hear these patent propagandists scream “God save us from patent trolls!” But, did anyone ever ask where the term “patent troll...
want to be involved anywhere in the Balkans to be able to say that this is a civil war of independence, and you will find everybody walk away here–I think. I could be dead wrong. Ambassador Gelbard. If I could just add a point to that, we ...