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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
LATE IN THE 20TH CENTURY, the future of the peoples of Yugoslavia no longer belonged to them: it was planned in other countries by top bureaucrats and numerous old and new international structures. The multinational federation was gradually sinking into a crisis punctuated with tragedies, unpredictable and often steep turns and illogical decisions many of them a result of international efforts. Indeed, the Balkan crisis can be described as a glaring example of efficiency and inefficiency of peacekeeping efforts of international organizations which shouldered a misplaced role of arbiters and judges of multisided domestic inter-national conflicts. The lessons to be learned will keep busy many generations of historians and politicians.
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