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How Online Platforms Fuel Nationalism Among Young People in the Western Balkans

Haris Ljevo

14.04.26

The Western Balkans is a region where the past and the present intertwine in a way that makes young people particularly vulnerable to nationalism and propaganda....

How Moscow and Beijing Enter the News in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dino Cviko

31.03.26

From RT and Sputnik to Xinhua and local newsrooms, foreign narratives are increasingly becoming part of the domestic media reality in Bosnia and...

AI in political campaigns: a global threat and the lack of preparedness in the Balkans

Haris Ljevo

25.03.26

Ultimately, the answer to AI and fake news will not come from one measure or one institution. It will be a combination of regulation, technological solutions, professional standards in the media and, perhaps most importantly, long-term investment in media and digital...

What’s behind Albania’s opposition-led protests?

Alice Taylor

09.03.26

Berisha has announced the protests will continue with another scheduled for March 22, which is expected to be widely attended. As for whether it will be as peaceful as he proclaims, that remains to be...

FIMI is a risk to be managed, not a statement to be refuted.

06.03.26

Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) doesn't defeat you with one lie. It defeats you with a habit. The habit of doubting...

When everyone posts the same thing: A signal of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference

Dragan Sekulovski

04.03.26

FIMI usually does not rely on a single lie, but on a combination of the posting frequency and timing, the emotion in the content, repetition and masking of the source....

China’s tacit entry into Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dino Cviko

23.02.26

The Belt and Road Initiative is a long-term global strategy of the People's Republic of China, through which Beijing, by providing investments and loans, seeks to connect China with the rest of the world and strengthen its economic and political...

Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) and the environmental sphere in the Western Balkan

Kiril Arsovski Przo

19.02.26

Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) increasingly constitute a substantive threat to the environmental domain (Upgrade Democracy,...

The Balkans’ European Path in the Shadow of Global Crises

Haris Ljevo

13.02.26

The current global political situation that features growing tensions between the European Union and the United States, raises the question of how much will such disruptions affect the European path of the Western Balkan...

Embedded Bilateralism and the Collapse of Rule-Based EU Enlargement: The Second Protocol in North Macedonia’s Accession Process

Ognen Vangelov

15.01.26

Вториот протокол е крајно проблематичен и штетен не само затоа што создава билатерален притисок, туку затоа што тој притисок го нормализира и го...

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