BATTLE FOR CHECYNA:
This BBC year 2000 special report includes considerable background about the
origins of the conflict.
BLOODY SUNDAY INQUIRY:
A BBC News special on the seven-year investigation associated with the 1972
shooting death by British soldiers of 14 civilian protesters participating in
a march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
: The companion web-site for a 2002 PBS documentary chronicling the
ouster of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.
: A retrospective from BBC News.
COUNTRY
STUDY -- RUSSIA: A
detailed introduction to Russia's geography, history and politics from the
U.S. Library of Congress series.
COUNTRY
STUDY -- RUSSIA: A
detailed introduction to Turkey's geography, history and politics from the
U.S. Library of Congress series.
: A BBC News feature on the European Union.
: A 2002 BBC News in-depth report on the introduction of the Euro.
EUROPEAN UNION -- WHAT IS THE EU?:
A concise overview from the Children's BBC site.
FALKLANDS WAR -- WHERE ARE THE FALKLAND ISLANDS?:
A brief summary of the 1982 British-Argentine War from the Children's BBC.
: A companion web-site to prominent journalist Timothy Garton Ash's book
Free World.
HISTORY FILE -- YUGOSLAVIA AND THE BALKANS, 1900-1998: A very concise introduction from the BBC.
INSIDE EUROPE -- A GUIDE TO THE CHANGING FACE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION:
A historically-informed news feature from the BBC.
KILLING OF KOSOVO: A backgrounder from BBC News.
MILOSEVIC ON TRIAL:
This BBC anthology of news articles includes extensive information on the
Balkan Wars.
MILOSEVIC ON TRIAL -- WHO IS SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC?:
An overview from the Children's BBC.
PROVISIONAL IRA -- WAR, CEASEFIRE, ENDGAME?: A BBC News feature that offers a brief history of The Troubles.
ROMANIA -- MY OLD HAUNTS: The companion web-site for a 2002 PBS Frontline World documentary in which the writer and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu returns to his native Romania 13 years after the 1989 revolution that brought down the dictator Nicolae Ceasescu.
SREBRENICA -- A CRY FROM THE GRAVE: The companion web-site for a PBS documentary about the Balkan city that became in 1995 the site of the worst post-World War II European massacre.
NORTHERN IRELAND: A
series of contemporary Time Magazine articles from between 1969 and
2000 that highlights the conflict in Northern Ireland.
SERBIA: A collection
of Time Magazine articles from between 1991 and 2000 that traces the
recent Yugoslav wars.