In writing about Kosovo and Georgia, I am handicapped by having no first-hand experience of the area, apart from having served in Moscow in the early 1970s, including a brief visit to Georgia during...

It's increasingly depressing to observe what appears to be a steadily widening gap between the reactions to the Georgia crisis in the US and those of liberal and other opinion in Europe, revealing fundamental...

Some lessons from western mistakes in its policies towards Russia, Georgia, secessionist movements, and spheres of influence [More >>>]

International administration of Kosovo has failed to bring development, as an authoritative LRB article demonstrates. Now Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence, not universally recognised, leaves it in limbo with little prospect of future prosperity — another western blunder following that of 1999 [More >>>]