Tim Judah

Who are the Serbs? Branded by some as Europe's new Nazis, they are seen by others--and by themselves--as the innocent victims of nationalist aggression and of an implacably hostile world media. In this challenging new book, Timothy Judah, who covered the war years in former Yugoslavia for the London "Times "and the "Economist," argues that neither is true. Exploring the Serbian nation from the gre...

On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central-geographically, historically, and politically-to the future of the Western Balkans and, in turn, its potential future within the European Union. But the fate of both Ko...