Post-Cold War Balkan alliances reorganized along Orthodox-versus-Muslim civilizational lines.

Evidence

Similar realignments occur in the Balkans. During the Cold War, Greece and Turkey were in NATO, Bulgaria and Romania were in the Warsaw Pact, Yugoslavia was nonaligned, and Albania was an isolated sometime associate of communist China. Now these Cold War alignments are giving way to civilizational ones rooted in Islam and Orthodoxy. … Overall, the Balkans have once again been Balkanized along the religious lines. “Two axes are emerging,” as Misha Glenny observed, “one dressed in the garb of Eastern Orthodoxy, one veiled in Islamic raiment” and the possibility exists of “an ever-greater struggle for influence between the Belgrade/Athens axis and the Albanian/Turkish alliance.” — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 336

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The medieval Christian-Muslim divide parallels modern Cold War ideological divisions.