Serbia and the Western Balkans:
Economic Challenges, European Perspectives
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Date
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009
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Venue
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Clement House, LSE
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Speaker
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Tim Judah
Author and Balkans correspondent for The Economist
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In general terms good news is no news. That is as true for the Western Balkans as it is for anywhere else. Since the end of the Balkan wars of the 1990s – but especially in the last few years – there have been huge changes on the ground, which have profoundly affected people's lives for the better, but the problem is that few people outside even know they have happened. What if the single most profound change – the emergence of a Yugosphere across the countries of the former Yugoslavia - is one which many people, for reasons of political correctness perhaps, or because it challenges what they stood for or believed in the 1990s, do not want to talk about or even acknowledge?
Tim Judah covers the Balkans for the Economist. He is the author of three books on the region: The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia and Kosovo: War & Revenge. The third, Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know was published at the end of 2008. He has travelled extensively throughout the Balkans and has covered the aftermath of communism in Romania and Bulgaria and the war in Yugoslavia.
He writes almost all the coverage of the former Yugoslavia for The Economist and, in spring 2009, he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSEE, where he developed the concept of the Yugosphere.
For his paper entitled Yugoslavia is Dead: Long Live the Yugosphere click here|.