Having wasted an evening watching that truly lamentable apology for a football match at Wembley, I have been moved to Tweet my rage in my best available Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian-Montenegrin: Glupost. Sramota. Engleska je bila besmislena, slaba, kompromitovana. Crnogorci su igrali pomalo grubo ali i ponekad dobro. Ih cestitam. Take that, Capello. Now […]
The worthy newspaper Blic in Belgrade asked me for a short commentary on my recollections of the Fall of Milosevic a decade ago. Here is the result. All in Serbian and with an eccentric picture of me by way of bonus. But Google Translator should help you get the gist. Of […]
Click on to the B92 wesbite (leading independent news outlet in Belgrade). It shows a page in Serbian but using the Latin script. My Google Translator button helpfully asks if you would like it translated – "Always translate Croatian". It does offer an option to translate this ‘Croatian’ into Serbian, […]
My analysis of this phenomenon, ably brought to our attention by eclectic Lefty Keith Ruffles in a comment on my latest BBRU, is over at Business and Politics: But where does ‘real influence’ come from? Only from the systemic discipline which comes from people having the chance to vote both […]
A new step in the Serbia/Kosovo story: the UN General Assembly has passed a unanimous resolution whose sense is to open ‘dialogue’ between Belgrade and Pristina supported by the European Union. Note that the BBC can not even get the simplest facts right. Its report says that: The European Union […]
Today the latest edition of DIPLOMAT magazine arrived. I opened it to find an article written by me which I could not remember writing(!). So I read it with much enjoyment and appreciation. Check it out. It describes my attempts as an argumentative young diplomat to persuade the Embassy in […]
Working on some slides for a Mediation Technique presentation in Geneva next week. Mediation as a professional discipline has some core assumptions. One of the most noted is the idea that there are three levels in the way people look at disputes, namely PIN: Positions Interests Needs Thus Kosovo. The […]
My piece at the Independent on the outcome of the Ejup Ganic trial in London provokes the usual flurry of comments: Mr Crawford is one of the morons that manipulated both US and UK foreign policy towards Bosnia in the 1990s. As an officer in the NATO force that arrived […]
An ever-alert reader notes that on the B92 website in Serbia I am described as Carls Kroford. Huh? On Charles, the cyrillic alphabet has its own separate letters for our ch sound, one for a ‘hard’ ch and one for a ‘soft’ ch: very roughly the difference between choose-day and Tuesday. […]
My piece in the Independent: Belgrade’s application in London looked like a weird attempt to cover everything in political slime to make a specious Serbia-favouring syllogism: All slimy people are guilty All involved in the Yugoslav imbroglio were equally slimy Therefore all were equally guilty – and, by the way, equally […]
