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Tag Archives: Yugoslavia
Prologue (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“And the death of Elizabeth had shown me the scourge of the world after the war, Luccheni, Fascism, the rule of the dispossessed class that claims its rights and cannot conceive them save in terms of empty violence, of killing, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Politics and Political Theory, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Anarchism, assassination, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bulgaria, Empress Elizabeth, former Yugoslavia, IMRO, Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, King Alexander I, Luigi Lucheni, Macedonia, Rebecca West, Vlado Chernozemski, Yugoslavia
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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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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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An Assault on Joseph Nye, Part Two: “Power and Violence are Opposites”
In a previous discussion, I attacked Joseph Nye’s “soft power/hard power” theory at the level of language, effectively calling his terms unclear and mealy-mouthed substitutes for clearer, more precise terms we can use like force and coercion, sanctions or diplomacy. Nye … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy
Tagged Arab Spring, Books, civil rights movement, faith groups, force, hannah arendt, hard power, international relations theory, Joseph Nye, nature of politics, politics, Public Diplomacy, roman catholic church, Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, soft power, Solidarity, terrorism, western political philosophy, Yugoslavia
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Bosnian Culture is World Culture: March 4 is Global Museum Solidarity Day
Today more than 200 museums, galleries and libraries in nearly 40 countries on five continents symbolically closed exhibits in solidarity with seven closed and threatened cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina. More than 20 galleries and universities in North America, 50 in … Continue reading
What John Brown Doesn’t Understand About Language in the United States
Perusing John Brown’s long-running blog on public diplomacy, I was jarred to find his crotchety rant about the minimalist linguistic antics of the young Americans he is forced to listen to on the Washington, D.C., Metro. He compared these inarticulate … Continue reading
Posted in Public Diplomacy
Tagged Croatia, demographics, John Brown, language education, languages, Public Diplomacy, U.S. Census Bureau, Yugoslavia
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The Incompleat Public Diplomacy Reader
When it comes to public diplomacy I am aware of no condensed reading list outside those assigned to the few academic programs in this country that teach the discipline formally, and even then I don’t have access to those syllabi. In … Continue reading
