In a recent ISPI article, Valbona Zeneli wrote that, despite other big actors at play, the European Union is the only game in town in the Western Balkans (WB). Is it really so? A review of the activities of the three most important non-EU players in the region - Russia, Turkey and China - points us in another direction.
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In 2015, the Kosovar Parliament passed a law to establish a Special Court in The Hague in order to investigate war crimes perpetrated in Kosovo between January 1998 and December 2000.
In a 1983 movie, "War Games" a US teenager, while trying to hack into a computer-game company in order to play videogames for free, unknowingly logs into the Pentagon’s networks and starts a game of "Global Thermonuclear War" playing the role of the Soviet Union.
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