Contentious Performances News Today

By David B. Kanin Not long ago, I took part in a conversation about the long-running soap opera called the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue.  Not surprisingly, most Western participants stressed the need for broader and deeper European and — especially – American involvement in another round of the usual diplomacy.  The majority of academics and journalists from the region were content to surrender authority for their future to the outsiders.  My observation that these powers have proven they ...