“The failure of Argentina,” writes V.S. Naipal, “so rich, so underpopulated, is one of the mysteries of our time.” The 2001 Nobel laureate has not been the only observer to express bewilderment regarding the failings of a country so blessed with resources and so impoverished as a nation. As Argentina slides into the economic abyss...
“Uzivajte u ratu, uzivajte, O braco moja i vojnici, Jer mir ce’ biti gori . . . “ (“Enjoy war, enjoy, Oh my brothers and soldiers, because peace will be worse . . . “) —An old Serbian war song There is a belief among the peoples of the Balkans that...
Members of the international press corps, particularly photojournalists, often define themselves as “objective observers,” not participants or instruments in a conflict, just witnesses. But as the events in the Balkans have shown, this has not always been the case. For five years the West has been bombarded with images of brutality in the Balkans, most...