Yugosphere

The Yugosphere is a concept, coined in 2009 by the British writer Tim Judah while he was a senior visiting fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics, for the social, linguistic, economic and cultural ties that still link the successor states of the former Yugoslavia. Judah presented it as a way of describing the renewal of thousands of broken bonds across the old state after its breakup. It is a cultural and political sphere rather than a legal territory, and it has no formal borders or institutions. Supporters of the idea have also called for a body in the manner of Benelux or the Nordic Council to encourage cooperation, joint policy and foreign policy among those states and to speed their integration into the European Union.