Jan Kubik (Rutgers): What’s the Situation of East Central Europe (ECE) Ten Years after Accession? Radenko Scekic (Montenegro): The Media and the Wars in Western Balkans in the Last Decade of the XX Century. Piro Rexhepi (NYU): Mainstreaming Islamophobia: The Politics of European Enlargement and the Balkan Crime-Terror Nexus. Ian Bancroft on the return of Balkan solidarity: Deep-seated mistrust and apathy among the people of the Balkans has been replaced with actions of transnational solidarity brought about by the region’s natural disasters, disgust at political corruption and the ongoing refugee crisis. Why do comic books love to use (and misuse) a fictional version of Eastern Europe? Harry Merritt on the forever-doomed Eastern Europe of our imaginations.
Ivan Krastev on why Poland is turning away from the West. Janos Kis on Orban’s politics of fear and hatred in Hungary. The European Union struggled hard to pull Moldova on its side; however now the tide is turning, Europe remains silent on the ongoing protests in Chisinau (and more and more). The last European: Juan Moreno on how Romanian driver Viktor Talic navigates the soul of the EU.
