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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The war in Bosnia-Hercegovina of 1992-1995 altered the course of world politics and had a major impact upon the global consciousness. Yet one of the decisive episodes of this war has been almost wholly ignored in the existing literature: the Bihacacute crisis of autumn 1994. This essay analyzes the role of this crisis in determining the course both of international, particularly US diplomacy, and of the war on the ground. The paradoxical results of the US-led international intervention in Bosnia-of NATO military power being used to coerce the Bosnian Serb rebels to accept a settlement highly favorable to them, in which Bosnia-Hercegovina was simultaneously both reunified and partitioned-may be traced back to this forgotten crisis.
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