Endgame in the Balkans

The document is a video taken on October 20, 2006 at World Affairs Council in Northern California, where the journalist Elizabeth Pond speaks about her book.  Drawing on hundreds of interviews, as well as decades of experience as a foreign correspondent, Pond moves across the region, from Bulgaria to Romania, Kosovo, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, and Serbia and Montenegro. She examines the many hurdles standing between these countries and EU membership - including poverty, corruption, and rabid chauvinism - as well as the hopes and problems that have led Balkan leaders to look to the West. 

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