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...theory, Inzko has the power to cancel a referendum or remove any Bosnian politician from power - including those in the Republika Srpska. But it remains unclear whether he has the international backing for such a move, or if he acted, whether his authority would be respected in the Serbian enclave. (Read: "Will Bosnia Test the Obama Administration...
...recent interviews with both the Bosnian and Serbian press, Dodik has insisted that any referendum will not call for independence, but will instead address the "unlawful" role of the High Representative, who represents the international community in Bosnia and holds wide powers to overrule or enforce government decisions. But he has also left open the door for a future vote on the status of the Republika Srpska and repeatedly called into question the legitimacy and long-term future of Bosnia. (Read: "E.U. and U.S. Talks Aim to End Bosnia Deadlock...
...door to NATO membership is open,” said Gordon, referring to Serbian interests in particular...
...writers in Best European seem a more adventurous bunch than their American counterparts. They experiment freely with structure and venture more often down the path of metafiction, debating the direction of a story even as their characters are entangled in it. ("The Basilica in Lyon," by Serbian writer David Albahari, is a mesmerizing dream chase along those lines.) Hemon says this is a reflection partly of his own editorial taste but also of the European publishing environment, which doesn't follow the American blockbuster model. "There's a lot of American fiction on the fringes that is very daring...
...painful but essential process of breaking from the stranglehold of the nationalist ideologies that led to the wars," says Alvaro de Vasconcelos, director of the Paris-based E.U. Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) think tank. (See pictures of Mitrovica, a northern Kosovar town on the dividing line of Serbian-Albanian tension...