THE USA AND CIVIL-WAR IN BOSNIA

Despite their extreme cruelty, the ethnic conflicts in ex-Yugoslavia t riggered by the Serbian wars of aggression against Croatia and Bosnia have not induced the states of Europe to coordinate their efforts towa rds terminating belligerence. The prospect of peace first surfaced fol lowing late intervention by the USA. In the following article, Georg S child, academic assistant at the Department of Political Sciences of t he University of Bonn, analyses the American approach.