Ever since the end of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, many people in Serbia have lived in the hope that Serbia’s “salvation” lies in membership in NATO and the European Union. These leaders have become hypnotized by the hope that membership in the so-called Euro-Atlantic community will provide the miracle Serbia needs to attain security and prosperity. Their eyes are fixed on Brussels and Washington.
From Saving Peace in Bosnia (LBF 2010; cf Our Publications)
The ink was hardly dry on the 1995 Dayton Accords when calls began to surface that a second “Dayton Conference” was needed to complete the transition of Bosnia from a dysfunctional war-torn ward of the “international community” to a vibrant, stable, multi-ethnic, free enterprise democracy.
