Vuk Vuksanovic

Montenegro’s motorway to nowhere

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Arching out across a quiet Balkan valley, Montenegro’s first motorway cuts across the rocky scrubland with unnatural precision: a modernist stroke of concrete that gleams against the stony outcrops of the Dinaric Alps. Hung on one of the vast grey pillars is the country’s distinctive crimson banner, a golden two-headed eagle at its centre.

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Vuk Vuksanovic
Vuk Vuksanovic is a PhD researcher in international relations at the LSE and an associate of LSE Ideas, the university's foreign policy think tank.

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