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Category Archives: The Former Yugoslavia
Clever Girl! (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“He does not so much split his infinitives as disembowel them.” (Rebecca West on Dr. Lionel Tayler, The Clarion, 1913) CONSIDER THIS INTERACTION recorded by Ian Parker about the late Christopher Hitchens in The New Yorker: And then the young … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Alexander Chancellor, Alexander Cockbridge, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Christiane Amanpour, Christopher Hitchens, Colin Robinson, Eric Alterman, Fred Kaplan, george orwell, Hussein Ibish, Ian PArker, Ilija Izetbegovic, James Fenton, Joanna Cole, Jonathan Karp, June Thomas, Mark Twain, Martin Amis, MEryl Gordon, Michael Kinsley, Peter Hitchens, Rebecca West, Roy Gutman, Samantha Power, Victor Navasky, William Grimes
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Not too late to seek a newer world (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“My dear, I know I have inconvenienced you terribly by making you take your holiday now, and I know you did not really want to come to Yugoslavia at all. But when you get there you will see why it … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bosnia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Rebecca West, Serbia
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The Bridge on the Neretva (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“To look at it is good; to stand on it is as good.” (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon) THE COVER OF nearly every edition of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon prominently features the same extraordinary architectural, cultural, and pontine monument … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, California, Cultural Diplomacy, destruction, European Union, former Yugoslavia, Mostar, NATO, Rebecca West, restoration, Stari Most, Yugoslavia
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Working Titles (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“I write books to find out about things.” (Paris Review, 1981) FOR THIS PROJECT I have four individual editions of Black Lamb separated in publication by 80 years. More than 25 years ago I started reading the 1994 Penguin Books … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Balkan Ghosts, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Books, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canongate, Capitol Hill Books, Christopher Hitchens, COVID19, Croatia, former Yugoslavia, KFOR, Kindle, Los Angeles Review of Books, Macedonia, NATO, Penguin, Quarantine, Rebecca West, Richard Holbrooke, Robert Kaplan, Serbia, travel books, travelogue, Viking Press, Yugoslavia
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Blogging ‘Black Lamb and Grey Falcon’
“What is Kaimakshalan? A mountain in Macedonia, but where is Macedonia since the Peace Treaty? This part of it is called South Serbia. And where is that, in Czechoslovakia, or in Bulgaria? And what has happened there? The answer is … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Politics and Political Theory, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Austro-Hungarian Empire, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Communism, Croatia, Dalmatia, fascism, former Yugoslavia, Henry Andrews, Macedonia, Rebecca West, Sarajevo, Serbia, Slovenia, travel books, travelogue, World War II, Yugoslavia
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A Divisive Concept
With Iraq on the edge of calamity, a hoary, dangerously stupid idea has again been floated by people smart enough to know better. With primarily Sunni extremists breathing down the Tigris and Euphrates river valley toward Baghdad and the mainly … Continue reading
Religion, politics, and public diplomacy
Today my interview with the Public Diplomacy Council — the association of retired US Information Agency and Foreign Service Officers involved in public diplomacy activities — was published online. I talked to Donald Bishop about my recent book and some … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Public Diplomacy, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Afghanistan, American culture, art, Cultural Diplomacy, Donald Bishop, Foreign Service Officers, Hollywood, interfaith, NATO, Public Diplomacy, public opinion poll, religion, strategic communications, the Public Diplomacy Council, U.S. State Department, US Information Agency
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Some Dreamers of the Impossible Dream
With nods to George Kennan, Joan Didion, and Cervantes, enjoy this excerpt from my book, The United States and the Challenge of Public Diplomacy about an extraordinary visit I made to Macedonia in 2006 published in The Foreign Service Journal. Although I wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Albania, Books, Bosnia, Bulgaria, current-events, EU, European Union, Foreign Service Journal, George Kennan, international relations, Joan Didion, Macedonia, NATO, nature of politics, Ohrid, politics, Public Diplomacy, Rebecca West, Serbia
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Plenums and Power (Power v. Force III)
The past two weeks have been astounding to witness in Ukraine and Bosnia- Herzegovina. While I haven’t been able to follow quite as intimately what has happened in Ukraine, media reporting from that country has been very good. In Bosnia … Continue reading
Posted in North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Politics and Political Theory, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Arab Spring, Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Communism, current-events, EU, European Union, force, hannah arendt, NATO, nature of politics, politics, repressive regimes, transitional justice, Ukraine, western political philosophy, Yugoslavia
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Do We Need A Cultural Foreign Policy?
This month in Bosnia-Herzegovina citizens protested government paralysis in every major city in the country, in some places leading to destruction of municipal government buildings. In Sarajevo, somebody took advantage of the chaos and burned the city archives – a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Public Diplomacy, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged aesthetics and politics, Afghanistan, Arab Spring, art, Art Galleries, BiH, Bosnia, current-events, EU, George Clooney, George Stokes, Islamic art, Ma'il Qur'an, Mali, National Gallery of Art, Public Diplomacy, Sarajevo, Sarajevo Haggadah, Smithsonian Institution, The Monuments Men, U.S. State Department, USAID
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