Posts Tagged ‘Western Balkans’

McMafia: Seriously Organized Crime (Book Review)

“If you have a lot of what people want and can’t get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough”. – Lucky Luciano
It’s a simple enough concept, and one that helped make the father of modern organised crime in the United States cited above ‘one of the most influential builders and titans [Read more...]

Kosovo: The Next Moldova?

Convergence – the process by which less developed economies ‘catch-up’ with their more developed peers through rapid improvements in productivity – has been the dominant story throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) for the better part of two decades now.

Certainly, it is the prevalent model by which most analysts expect the Western Balkans [Read more...]


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