Elsewheres

Balkans

• First Check Their Sources 3: The myth that ‘Germany encouraged Croatia to secede from Yugoslavia’: Marko continues his demolition job on David Gibbs. This post is particularly interesting, and I have to say that this was a myth that I believed, so am glad to be put right pretty convincingly.

Tunisia etc

• Will Algeria be next? Paul C on the domino effect of the jasmine revolution.
• The five next Tunisias: FP's pick of Middle Eastern kleptocracies and democratators.
• Bill Weinberg: the virus spreads to Yemen, Algeria, and Albania.
• Unholy dalliance. Francis S on Soumaya Ghannoushi.
• Beware those who sneer at 'human rights imperialism': Sohrab Ahmari on the idiocy of Western liberals.
• Al-Jazeera's Wonderbra: Khaled Abu Toameh on press freedom in the Middle East. 
• The inside story of how Facebook responded to Tunisian hacks: Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic.

(H/t Bella for some of these links)