Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History

Sources about the Kosovo crisis

Many readers who visited this Web site also were looking for sources that would shed light on the Kosovo crisis.  This note was originally added to the Table of Contents on April 2, 1999. The separate page for current Balkan news is more frequently updated than this one.

Since NATO's intervention in the Kosovo crisis, I have received email requests for more current information, on events since 1995 or with greater emphasis on Albania. Rather than try to update or enlarge these lectures, let me point to some other Web sites that I think are reliable.  Here you may find more background information, current news, and organized lists of links to a wide range of Web sources:

• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
  For current news reports at http://www.rferl.org/
• Albania: A Country Study (prepared 1992):
  The U.S. Department of Defense commissions book-length background studies on foreign regions of interest; the Library of Congress is posting these texts on the Web. These provide good background summaries, but necessarily lack current event coverage. You can read the Albanian study at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/altoc.html
• Yugoslavia: A Country Study (prepared 1990):
  Another in the series; this volume on the former Yugoslavia and its successor states is on the Web at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/yutoc.html
• U. of Texas Russian and East European Network Information Center:
  This site offers links to many other Web sites through pages at http://reenic.utexas.edu/
• INCORE guide to Internet sources on conflict and ethnicity in Kosovo:
  Another site with many links, from a British policy group; this portion of the larger site deals with Kosovo, online at http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/services/cds/countries/Kosovo.html
• Crucible of War:
  This site, developed by a multi-national team, is an effort to personalize events in the Balkan conflict. The Web site, at http://www.crucibleofwar.com/, is a companion to a planned documentary.

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