Latest Southeast europe Podcast Episodes
Balkan Leaders: Milorad Dodik
Calling - December 18, 2022 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThought by many to be the most openly nationalist politician in the Balkans, Milorad Dodik is a staunch supporter of Bosnian Serb separatism and continues to threaten with seceding the entity of the Republika Srpska, or what amounts to about half of Bosnia’s territory. For years, the president ...
Balkan Leaders: Albin Kurti
Calling - December 05, 2022 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsKosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti was enthusiastically voted into power two years ago after pushing out entrenched establishment parties, winning by the highest margin in Kosovo's democratic history. Since then, he's become a persistent thorn in the side of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić ...
Balkan Leaders: Edi Rama
Calling - November 27, 2022 09:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWho better to start the new series off with than the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama? Charming and colorful, sometimes literally, direct yet eloquent, Rama has captured the imagination of those less in the know by telling Brussels like it is, and wearing sneakers while doing it. In the eyes of...
What's in the Pandora Papers?
Calling - October 25, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEarlier in October, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) began releasing information gathered from the Pandora Papers, the largest leak of financial documents ever made available to journalists. It exposed the secret offshore accounts of hundreds of current and former...
It's Only the First Hot Summer of the Rest of Your Life
Calling - August 21, 2021 11:28 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn the first episode of Calling, we are going to go to Greece, where almost 600 forest fires destroyed more than 250 thousand acres of land, more than half of which is on the island of Evia and immensely affecting people, their lives and livelihoods. 40 towns and villages have been completely de...
A Country by Any Other Name
Sarajevo Calling - December 24, 2020 18:24 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsYour favorite podcast returns from a months-long hiatus to examine the breakdown in Bulgarian-Macedonian relations. We speak to scholar Dimitar Bechev for his perspective on the latest setback for North Macedonia and its EU aspirations. Then, in her first field-report, journalist Una Hajdari rep...
Montenegro’s Election Fallout w/ Ljubomir Filipović
Sarajevo Calling - September 07, 2020 08:46 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThis week on Sarajevo Calling, the guys chat with Montenegrin political analysts Ljubomir Filipović about the country’s historic elections. What are the prospects for a heterodox coalition government between right wing nationalists and left wing reformers? What has been the role of outside actor...
Literal Election Fever
Sarajevo Calling - August 11, 2020 09:01 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThe boys return from a brief hiatus to discuss the resurgence of coronavirus in the Western Balkans, and how local governments have pressed on with ill-advised elections of (in Serbia’s case, at least) dubious democratic legitimacy. Also, the contested legacy of Croatia’s “Operation Storm”; whos...
Fifty Shades of Tulumbe
Sarajevo Calling - July 04, 2020 15:19 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsIt's Episode 28 of Sarajevo Calling, wherein Aleksandar and Jasmin discuss Balkan cuisine. Sogan dolma, klepe, ajvar, njeguški pršut, tulumbe, baklava; it's our most sensual and syrupiest episode yet. It'll make you light up a cigarette and maybe make you feel a bit uncomfortable. Maybe you have...
The Flying Rasim
Sarajevo Calling - June 21, 2020 18:12 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThis week the boys discuss the apparent landmark elections deal in the city of Mostar, the bizarre campaign trail antics of Serbia's Deputy PM, the (re)arrest of war criminal Fikret Abdić, and - at long last! - the return of TANK TALK. All this and our views on donkeys, nature's most noble ungul...
Berry, Berry Corrupt
Sarajevo Calling - June 15, 2020 17:14 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsSlovenia's illiberal PM is posting bizarre conspiracy theories and attacking journalists on Twitter, while Bosnia's entity governments are embroiled in raspberry and tent-related corruption scandals. It's been a weird few weeks in Balkan politics, and Sarajevo Calling is back to make (try to) se...
Sarajevo as Philosophical Absolute
Sarajevo Calling - May 29, 2020 11:55 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsAleksandar and Jasmin discuss: Sarajevo - the place, the myth, the spite, and the spirit. An intimate, personal dialogue on what Sarajevo means to the guys, its "parallel universes", and the city as "philosophical absolute". Sarajevo Calling is a podcast about Southeast European affairs, focus...
Hearing is Beliebing w/ Florian Bieber
Sarajevo Calling - May 07, 2020 17:53 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThe boys sit down and chat with the renowned scholar Florian Bieber of the University of Graz about the origins of his academic career studying the Western Balkans, the rise of authoritarianism and illiberalism in the region, and the future of European enlargement. And we ask him to go on the re...
Kosovo's Constitutional Kerfuffle
Sarajevo Calling - April 23, 2020 18:08 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThe boys discuss the ongoing political drama in Kosovo between (Acting) Prime Minister Albin Kurti and President Hashim Thaçi, and their respective supporters. Why did Kurti's government fall and what has been the role of the international community in these events, in particular as concerns the...
Balkan Book Bonanza
Sarajevo Calling - April 18, 2020 19:39 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThe boys discuss some of their favorite narrative and scholarly literature about the Western Balkans, while both having an emotional meltdown. Featuring a collection of texts by both local authors and foreign experts on the region. Sarajevo Calling is a podcast about Southeast European affairs...
Pitopopulism
Sarajevo Calling - April 10, 2020 12:19 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsHow have regional leaders responded to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic to the Western Balkans? Are restrictions on media freedom and public discourse the the way to deal with a viral contagion - or is this another alarming moment of regional democratic backsliding? And what exactly is a "zel...
Singing Tales with Damir Imamović
Sarajevo Calling - April 01, 2020 16:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsOn our big 20th episode spectacular, we talk with sevdah singer and scholar Damir Imamović ahead of the April 3, 2020 release of his new album, "Singer of Tales". We discuss the origins of the sevdah genre, its post-war revitalization, and what Damir considers sevdah's "punk ethos". Sarajevo Ca...
"Sarajevo Calling Italy": Bonus Episode w/ Giovanni Vale
Sarajevo Calling - March 26, 2020 12:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsWe speak with Giovanni Vale of Extinguished Countries about how he and his partner came up with the idea for " the first guidebook series about countries that no longer exist" and, in particular, the first volume in the series on the continuing legacies of the Republic of Venice presence in the ...
Balkan Folk Remedies with Una Hajdari
Sarajevo Calling - March 19, 2020 12:02 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsWe talk completely ineffective Balkan folk remedies for COVID19, rheumatism, and everything in between with freelance journalist Una Hajdari. We also touch on her comparative experiences reporting on others parts of post-socialist Eastern Europe -- and whether propuh/promaja is as deadly as they...
Getting Lit with Valerie Hopkins
Sarajevo Calling - March 11, 2020 12:26 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsIt's the first ever Sarajevo Calling interview episode, featuring the guys in conversation with journalist Valerie Hopkins of the Financial Times. We'll discuss Valerie's start as a reporter in the region, her perspective on Hungary's growing influence in the Balkans, and the significance of rec...
Viral Politics
Sarajevo Calling - February 26, 2020 18:19 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsWhat is the likely political impact of the coronavirus going to be in the Western Balkans, and do these societies have the resources to deal with this outbreak? And speaking of viruses, what is Milorad Dodik playing at with his recent threats of secession, and how can Bosnia overcome the disease...
Balkan Baking News Roundup
Sarajevo Calling - January 30, 2020 13:23 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsWhat's behind the apparent breakthrough in Kosovo-Serbia relations, as brokered by the new U.S. Presidential envoy Richard Grenell -- and what happened to the EU in the process? And what exactly is happening in the Sarajevo Canton and who - if anyone - presently constitutes the government? All t...
State-Sponsored Secular Spectacular
Sarajevo Calling - December 29, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThis week on “Sarajevo Calling”, the boys count down the big political stories of the year while discussing the particular and peculiar culture surrounding the marking of New Year’s Eve in the Western Balkans. And all of this with a spread of musical interludes! Sarajevo Calling is a podcast ab...
Dignity, Humiliation, and Tents
Sarajevo Calling - December 09, 2019 13:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsWhat are the intersections between dignity and humiliation, on the one hand, and pervasive patterns of corruption and dignity, on the other, in the Western Balkans? Will there ever be a "revolution of dignity" in this region? And what would that require? This week, with heads held high, on "Sara...
Macron Says "Nah"
Sarajevo Calling - October 22, 2019 11:54 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsFrench obstruction of the start of EU accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania, a second U.S. Special Envoy for the Western Balkans region, elections and coalition making in Kosovo, and the question that has plagued philosophers since the dawn of organized political life: what's the diff...
Balkan Cinema, Part 1 of 7,841
Sarajevo Calling - September 29, 2019 12:35 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThe boys dip their toes into film criticism, with a scattershot overview some well known - and a few less well known - foreign and domestic films dealing with the contemporary Western Balkans. Sarajevo Calling is a podcast about Southeast European affairs, focusing in particular on the contempo...
All Eyez on Tank Talk
Sarajevo Calling - September 05, 2019 12:19 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsWhat can we expect from the new U.S. Special Representative for the Western Balkans Matthew Palmer? What's behind the recent tank-tractor schism between Serbian and Croatian soccer fans? And will Bosnia ever see a new government formed? All this and a brand new mid-episode jingle on Episode 11 o...
Bosnia, Out & Proud!
Sarajevo Calling - August 19, 2019 14:20 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsIs the upcoming Bosnian Pride a socio-political game changer in the region's central polity? Can the struggle for LGBT rights help deliver greater civil rights for all Bosnians and Herzgovinians? And how do we square the bigoted comments of North Macedonia's PM with his government's recent refor...
APC-lypse Now-ish
Sarajevo Calling - August 01, 2019 12:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsSarajevo Calling is a podcast about Southeast European affairs, focusing in particular on the contemporary politics of the Western Balkans. Hosted by journalist Aleksandar Brezar and political scientist Jasmin Mujanović, and with graphics provided by Boris Stapić, Sarajevo Calling posts new epis...
101 Dalmatian Recessions?!
Sarajevo Calling - July 17, 2019 14:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsSarajevo Calling is a podcast about Southeast European affairs, focusing in particular on the contemporary politics of the Western Balkans. Hosted by journalist Aleksandar Brezar and political scientist Jasmin Mujanović, and with graphics provided by Boris Stapić, Sarajevo Calling posts new epis...
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