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The Western Balkans Will Make or Break the EU With its eastern borders shut down, for the time being, the European Union must move its attention to the Western Balkans?where the expansion of union membership is crucial to maintain stabilization. Mother Teresa of Skopje The city of Skopje, Macedonia, commemorates Mother Teresa with a special award for humanitarian engagement that bears her name and, this year, with the construction of a new memorial house. Rwanda: Call to Indict French Leaders for Genocide It is unlikely that former prime ministers Dominique de Villepin or Alain Juppé, or anyone else on the commission's list of French genocide suspects, will be extradited to Rwanda. Boisterous Bear, Wounded Eagle: U.S.-Russian Tensions From a Post-Communist Perspective You do not have to be a Soviet studies expert (or a post-Communist scholar) to know that the American missile defense shield will create a Russian backlash (as we have seen in Georgia). Lessons of the Caucasus Conflict The end of the confrontation with Georgia marks the opening of a new chapter in the fight for predominance in Eastern Europe: Ukraine. Like Georgia, Ukraine is a very vulnerable ally of the United States.